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"I suppose given how illegal killing babies around here is you don't have stats on whether slaves go to Hell for their owners murdering their baby."

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"Is that the most apt comparison?"

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"Bought, sold, returned for refunds if they don't perform, power of life and death over 'em, the whole cave of bats."

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They all look quite disconcerted at this. 

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"So why are you...against slavery."

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"...because it's horrible?"

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"That's just not usually a position people arrive at when it's everywhere."

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"Well, most people are kind of boring and the way people are boring is they do whatever's everywhere. Obviously I'm not doing that."

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Snort. "Well, I like her."

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"Who could've guessed," Fazil says. "We were going to go out to pick up the rest of the supplies we'll need; want us to grab anything for you?"

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"You'll probably get a way better price on rations than me. I'm not picky and I'll pay you back. Or in advance, if you like."

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"If you eat the same things as humans you can pay us back later."

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"I've gotten used to surface food at this point, yeah."

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"All right. We'll catch you this evening, then."

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"Here?"

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"See you then."

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"See you then!"

 

They head out.

Elsewhere in the tavern, the arm wrestling match has devolved into a drunken argument and someone is reading tarot cards and someone is counting out an astonishing sum of money and some people are passing around a magic item that makes you levitate six inches off the ground and bob up and down.

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Any chance of a go at the crystal ball?

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For two hundred gold, sure.

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"Highway robbery, you've been passing it around so much a kitten'd throw it off half the time by now."

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One hundred.

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"For two tries in a row I'll give you eighty."

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She pays up and she looks. Twice.

Doesn't work.

She sighs and heads out, casting Penumbra before she steps onto the street, and looks for cheap lunch.

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