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<span class="mu-i">Might be worth coin dead.</span>
“Still not sure why’d I have to hand the wench over…” you muse, then throw him a dirty look. “Are you putting me on?”
The brute has the decency to look wrong-footed. “Putting you…” he drawls like a simpleton.
“You don’t need her to tell some Westerosi she’s dead. That’s passing stupid. A head in a box would do it. Could be that poxy bitch you still keep. You ever pick up a rotted head and really give it a onceover? No. Friends or not, I won’t waste my rightful loot,” you rant.
Navaen just stares at you all the while. Then he laughs, a great ugly sound. Yet you find it a pleasant reprieve from the tension you were holding onto. “So, you’d have me mummer the pink Westerosi, toss him parts of a whore’ve less worth.”
“I’d have you do as you well please. Just don’t see why you’d bother wasting a prime whore, my prime whore at that, to do it,” you say. “Unless there’s good reason. This Westerosi… might he be offering a king’s ransom? Or is he the sort to make great trouble for us?”
“No Westerosi is to make trouble’ve me. I’ve not settled the pay yet. My bosun’s work, not mine,” Navaen casually states. Too casually. He doesn’t want to tell you more.
“As you say. So, you get your bounty and I get to sell her to a nice proper whorehouse. Why get paid once when you can get paid twice?” you say.
“This’s why we keep you ’round,” he says in his best attempt at a compliment. “You’re a greedy little shit. Too greedy.”
You catch his meaning. “At times I might need a reminder,” you allow. “Not to say we can’t split. She’s my catch, though. Say, seventy-thirty?”
“Aye. Seventy-thirty. You the thirty,” he grins.
“Well hold on now that’s just not right,” you gripe. “Fine. Fine. Meet me in the middle. Half for me. Half for you. Partners.”
“Partners’re not always halves. Ship’s mine. Most the men, too. You’re just boarders. We’ve had other boarders afore. Can always get more,” he says. You study him a moment and see that he’s testing you. Arguing to spare a woman and freely offering to see to the sale of slaves is well outside your usual approach. If you weren’t to dicker over the split, well, that would just be unnatural.
