"Because if you understood, you would have asked for more coin than what they wanted to pay, if you took it at all."
She snorts her laughter - typical of Lord Hastings. Cheap and greedy, to say the least. But as they press on, he does have a point. What did it matter, who they were above ground? There was just them and the dark now, and whatever else found them here.
That warrants an unmistakable knowing sound exaggerated to some ridiculous end. It sounds like, 'Is that so? Please, regale me with every detail,' as he leads the way down, down, down into the deeper, truer dark.
"Then I'll be sure to ask even fewer questions when I return you than ordinary." Thanks for the warning, lady.
"Pity then, that you will have to tell him that you were caught with me for days. Or I will. That you learned who I was. What I mean. What I mean to who. Then you can't be trusted, can you? You know then. And you will be useless to him." It's vicious, and this is underhanded. This is a game that he can't win at, not really. He's a pawn between herself and Hastings like a hundred more before him and after him. But when she has only a few days to convince him between here and there, about what was at stake. About why he couldn't do this.
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She snorts her laughter - typical of Lord Hastings. Cheap and greedy, to say the least. But as they press on, he does have a point. What did it matter, who they were above ground? There was just them and the dark now, and whatever else found them here.
"He's dragged you into politics."
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"Then I'll be sure to ask even fewer questions when I return you than ordinary." Thanks for the warning, lady.
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"That you caught Lakshmi the Dragon Slayer."