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<span class="mu-s">You are Vaaro Orlios</span>
You think over Gwynfryd’s demand… and it is a demand… and find it to be worth your while. Your plan to announce sale of your slave stock might even be welcome word to the Myrmen. If you handle it well enough, they might just thank you for the trouble of brokering the sale of their own hostages. Not that you plan on returning with coin in hand. You can already predict the wench will take issue with you actually selling any of her kinsmen, but it would be passing stupid not to. Your coin is dwindling, and useless mouths won’t help matters.
You say none of this to her, instead leaving the hut without another word of commitment or refusal. You hear your name thrown at your back, enjoying the way it sounds from her harsh sunset accent, but you refuse to wait on her like a dog. She’s just what you need to get out of this slump. Acting her servant will get you nowhere, though. You need to establish better terms.
As you walk across the sand to the paltry docks of the fishing village, you consider which of your men to bring on the short voyage. There are around two score left to you. Most are lazing about a stone’s throw from you in whatever shade they could find from the summer sun, likely drunk on the dwindling supply of strongwine. Surely the perfect time to stand upon a barrel and shout of gold and glory, of all the adventures yet to be had and all the wenches for the taking… if you were a stupid cunt. This lot doesn’t buy into that sort of bravado. Some would gladly sell you for another cask of wine. Others like you but like their other friends more who hate you. In short, the camp is a mess of politics tangled enough to make a magister consider making an honest living. If you really discount all the naysayers and gleeful traitors and false friends, you can narrow it down to… four, really, who wouldn’t raise a fuss over well-timed turning of cloaks. The ones who you’ve saved a time or two from a sticky situation and in turn divvied out a little extra for cuts of loot. They’re your assurances. It doesn’t take much effort to find them and spread word of your intent to make for the auction blocks. The rest of the plan can wait until you’re underway.
