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Post by Robyn Stark on Feb 27, 2016 12:47:25 GMT -5
"Like you, I imagine, it helped me develop a certain skill set." She replied, looking at the ash, then she held her hand out for it.
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Post by Kurts on Feb 27, 2016 13:07:41 GMT -5
"Had all the skills I needed before I went in. The Grey just hardened me, like adding carbon to iron." he her outstretched hand for a moment, before rolling a new cigarette for her and offering it. "Which Free City?"
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Post by Robyn Stark on Feb 27, 2016 13:34:03 GMT -5
"Lys." She replied, and chucked him some dried meat in payment for the cigarette and kit it, taking a drag.
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Post by Kurts on Feb 27, 2016 13:58:34 GMT -5
He studied the meat for a moment, wondering what beast it came from in these foreign lands, but put it with the rest of his food with a shrug. He had eaten worse certainly.
"Seems a girl like you could take easier and more profitable work in Lys." he said, rather bluntly, clearly implying work on her back, studying her with the same curiosity he had the meat.
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Post by Robyn Stark on Feb 27, 2016 14:04:01 GMT -5
"A girl like me?" She asked, looking unimpressed. She got the implication obviously.
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Post by Kurts on Feb 27, 2016 14:07:30 GMT -5
"Comely." he clarified, finding the nicest word in his vocabulary he could come up with. "Well built. Bounty hunting aint the only work where agility is prized, nor the most profitable, nor the least dangerous." He did not say any of this in a lewd of licentious manner, merely a statement of fact.
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Post by Robyn Stark on Feb 27, 2016 14:23:31 GMT -5
"No. That is not for me. Besides in Lys, there is more to being a successful whore in Lys than being beautiful and agile. All prostitutes in Lys are slaves. They make no money and exchange their bodies for security and food."
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Post by Kurts on Feb 27, 2016 14:29:26 GMT -5
"What do people use coin for if not food, security, and comfort? Most work is an exchange of your body for coin, this one included." He played devil's advocate rather than asserting his own beliefs. After all, he hunted for the thrill of it and because it was something he was good at, not for the coin. "I've heard fame, adoration, and a considerable amount of power comes to the best among the bedslaves. Though I must admit I have always been puzzled by their claim to teach 16 seats of pleasure. I've known my fair share of women in my time in Westeros, whores and otherwise, but can think of only half a dozen at most, perhaps eight if I was pressed."
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Post by Robyn Stark on Feb 27, 2016 14:34:45 GMT -5
"You'd be surprised," she said before stoping herself, "if you are born into a pillow house and not seen to be of acceptable stock you are sold."
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Post by Kurts on Feb 27, 2016 14:49:38 GMT -5
"Or maybe I'm just unimaginative." he shrugged. "And you were of this unacceptable stock?" he asked, motioning to her tattoos. He knew enough to know they marked a slave, former or otherwise.
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Post by Robyn Stark on Feb 27, 2016 14:58:45 GMT -5
"In a way." Her tattoos had originally been to cover her slave tattoo, which had been on her shoulder, but she just kept them going.
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Post by Kurts on Feb 27, 2016 15:17:16 GMT -5
He'd known men in The Grey that were prone to incorporate their scars into tattoos. It was not an uncommon practice and he had clearly made assumptions about her own.
"Descriptive." he remarked, but did not press, respecting her privacy in the matter. "Well you speak Common well. Any other tongues?"
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Post by Robyn Stark on Feb 27, 2016 15:23:20 GMT -5
"My old man taught me." Mia replied,"I speak all the languages of the free cities passably, not to pass as a local, but I could make my way.'
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Post by Kurts on Feb 27, 2016 15:26:39 GMT -5
"Now that is something." he commended, interest actually piqued now. "Invaluable even in these lands foreign to me. I was planning to simply book passage back to Westeros, suffering even more of a material loss for this venture."
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Post by Robyn Stark on Feb 27, 2016 15:52:06 GMT -5
"How lucky for you then..." she said pulling her legs back up to her chest, "And what is it I am getting from this partnership?"
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