"Win a bet?"

"There is a market in how long till trade goods from a drow country are freely available for sale! Unfortunately it was worded so I couldn't clean up by selling stuff I have owned for more than three years."

"How inconsiderate of the Prince Merenre."

"So inconsiderate! I like my boots but way less than I like the boots I could get for what I woulda won."

"I guess it could be argued that the taxpayers shouldn't be buying you boots but I think they could stand to be more generous, really."

"The people who bought into a betting market without checking whether I bought my boots downstairs would be buying them."

"Ah, well, that's on them. - you're probably not the only one here with drow souvenirs, I guess. Might be the only one who bought them."

"If someone got their hat off a dead drow that doesn't mean the hat was drow-made. We steal, you know. But I can vouch for the provenance of my stuff."

"Well, we'll have to run off with their money some other way. When do they want you to leave?"

"Said authorizing it tomorrow but didn't give a departure date."

"Pretty quick moving when they wanted us out of the sea."

"Yeah, I think it'll be soon, but that could mean tomorrow or the next day or in a few."

Nod.

"How much will subcontracting you run me?"

"Haven't got anything better to do. I guess you should feed me."

"What, no hazard pay? You have to look the part, you don't have to get that deep into character."

"Fine, toss me a thousand, but 's not really a lot of hazard. Know a guy who'll raise me."

"You could get captured and sold into actual slavery, if it goes pear shaped enough."

"If this is not an improvement on getting my guy to raise me it seems likely to be possible to turn into that."

"...I mean, you'd probably manage eventually but the struggle over whether you are permitted to thus ruin your purchaser's investment wouldn't be the most fun time you've ever had. I think I can navigate the situation but unless you have actual practice biting through your tongue as an emergency measure I wouldn't count out some nasty midgames altogether."

"Are you trying to talk me into demanding more money? I will also take two thousand."

"I don't actually have a strong opinion on how much money you should charge but I want us to be mutually clear on what you're charging it for!"

"I do a lot of stupid shit for only moderately good reasons and I don't really have an endgame, now that Fazil and Mahdi are talking about retiring. Can't exactly settle down uptown with a girl, a housekeeper and a cook."

"If you say so.

You ever think about settling down overseas, would that work?"

"Dunno. I'd - I don't know for sure Abadar wouldn't pick my kids."