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She clicks her tongue - and he canters over to her, where she starts thoroughly checking him for injury or wasting. 

"Where did you acquire him?" she asks, tone deceptively mild. 

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"West Ravka. A nobleman's stable in Os Kervo."

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"What is his name?"

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"What's your interest in knowing?"

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"I'd like to make an example out of him."

"As I'll make an example out of anyone threatening my Sun Summoner."

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"How much is your example worth to you?"

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"That depends on how much information you have - including which bounty you are here to tell me of, and how much you can tell me of it."

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"Your Sun Summoner's worth a million kruge in Ketterdam, and we're not the only crew that heard about the job, just the first to get here."

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"For information leading to those who stole from me - three hundred thousand kruge."

"For information leading to those who would steal from me - one million and two hundred thousand kruge."

"Assuming, of course, that your information is actionable."

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"And what about information leading to holes in your current security?"

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"The standard bounty I offer for those is the equivalent of fifty thousand kruge per each previously unidentified flaw."

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"And for major flaws?"

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"A fatal opening never consists of just one mistake."

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Grin.

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"That sounds like a reasonable set of terms."

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"Those who cooperate with me profit."

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"The man's name was Zlatan."

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"I see."

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"He didn't commission the theft, if that's worth anything to you. The thief was freelance, and scared out of her mind after crossing the Fold."

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"He knew the treachery he was participating in all the same."

She asks for more details, then - partially sounding like she's confirming something, partially like she's planning an offensive.

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Details Kaz can provide. Not like she cares what happens to that West Ravkan general.

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Good. 

And on the bounty...

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Might be they'll want to move somewhere else for the rest of this conversation. It's likely to take a while.

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"To my office," she says, gesturing up the stairs. 

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Yeah, it was too much to hope there wouldn't be stairs in a palace. (Kaz is feeling the incredible amounts of walking they've had to do over the past two weeks.) Up the stairs.

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