WHO: Fitcher, Flint, Wysteria, Cassius & Co WHAT: Ye olde catch all WHEN: Now-ish WHERE: Various NOTES: Don't have anything open, but feel free to snag me OOCly if you want to do anything and I'm happy to slap something together.
"We've discussed the merits of privateers before now."
And had wrestled so strenuously over the semantics that the idea had been all but smothered in it's crib. But that was before, with Tevinter's sights on Val Chevin—not an ideal target, certainly, but one which might be choked out by raising the Kirkwall chain or some other drastic action if fundamentally necessary. With the reverse on the table—if Tevinter manages to throttle trade along the Minanter as well as on the Waking Sea, what means will they have to stop it?—surely they can be motivated to see the reason in urgency.
Flint pauses, the blank back of the wrinkled chit face up between his fingertips. Hoping to win anything of real value against the house in these games is pure foolishness.
"When we were in Hasmal, Yseult asked after Nascere. She wanted to know what we'd intended for it."
Not a topic John had been prepared to see raised between them. The tap of the coin ceases as John looks back at him, taking in the whole of his expression.
"Did you answer her?" is half a question. What John is asking after is the nature of the thing. How much of an answer did Yseult receive, and how much of it was rooted in truth?
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And had wrestled so strenuously over the semantics that the idea had been all but smothered in it's crib. But that was before, with Tevinter's sights on Val Chevin—not an ideal target, certainly, but one which might be choked out by raising the Kirkwall chain or some other drastic action if fundamentally necessary. With the reverse on the table—if Tevinter manages to throttle trade along the Minanter as well as on the Waking Sea, what means will they have to stop it?—surely they can be motivated to see the reason in urgency.
Flint pauses, the blank back of the wrinkled chit face up between his fingertips. Hoping to win anything of real value against the house in these games is pure foolishness.
"When we were in Hasmal, Yseult asked after Nascere. She wanted to know what we'd intended for it."
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"Did you answer her?" is half a question. What John is asking after is the nature of the thing. How much of an answer did Yseult receive, and how much of it was rooted in truth?