loch lemach gives zero fucks (cutandthrust) wrote in emillion, @ 2014-06-06 01:54:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, !thread, loch lemach, sky min |
Who: Loch Lemach & Sky Min
What: A possible job opportunity
Where: The docks
When: 6/2 (backdated)
Rating: PG-13 for their swearing, probably.
Status: Complete!
The market opens to the public at 7AM; by 8AM the best pieces of the morning’s haul are gone, sold to connoisseurs and high-end restaurants, but the vendors are still doing brisk business when, shortly before nine, Loch sees the boy make his way through the crowd toward the harbormaster’s office. Philip is inside, playing diplomatic mediator for two quarreling merchants, and Loch sees no need to disturb him; it is not for him that the kid will be working, if she decides to take him on. She is reviewing a manifest for a late shipment when he walks up to the table set up outside the office, and he has the good sense not to interrupt her; it is only once Philip has emerged from the office, wiping his brow with a handkerchief and looking exhausted, that she turns to the kid and tells him, “Let’s take a walk.” He knows the area―would need to, having worked for Arwel―but the conversation before them is not one she wants to have near the office. For that, the chaos of the market is perfect, where everyone is shouting to make themselves heard over the rest, and nobody has time for anything but their own business. “And keep your hands to yourself,” she warns him, knowing how attractive the crowds are to a pickpocket. “If you start working for me, the market’s off-limits.” |