One had gotten away. That was the message. One of their kind had shown up in Unhalad's prisons again and been rescued, but was gone before they could get him where he needed to go. So, it was Lee Chang's work to go and find him and clean up.
It wasn't as hard as it would have been, a month ago. Lee Chang was starting to pick up some of the local lingo even when he didn't have his quartz handy, thanks to grudging if patient tutelage from his bodyguard. He'd been selling furs in the city for long enough now that he blended in - or at least as much as a man who was used to living in a palace could ever blend in.
So it was that he caught the nervous whispers about someone other shifting around the area. At first he was worried that it was about one of them, that they were drawing attention to themselves, but after a few hours he managed to narrow down the source.
Just as the man was trying to lift a cloak from a nearby open window, hung to dry.
He cleared his throat quietly from behind him.
"Don't. Not worth it."
Lee Chang would know - he was fully decked out in leather lined with soft white fur, carefully stitched to his size. Sometimes being a fur trader had its perks.
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Date: 2021-05-30 09:43 pm (UTC)It wasn't as hard as it would have been, a month ago. Lee Chang was starting to pick up some of the local lingo even when he didn't have his quartz handy, thanks to grudging if patient tutelage from his bodyguard. He'd been selling furs in the city for long enough now that he blended in - or at least as much as a man who was used to living in a palace could ever blend in.
So it was that he caught the nervous whispers about someone other shifting around the area. At first he was worried that it was about one of them, that they were drawing attention to themselves, but after a few hours he managed to narrow down the source.
Just as the man was trying to lift a cloak from a nearby open window, hung to dry.
He cleared his throat quietly from behind him.
"Don't. Not worth it."
Lee Chang would know - he was fully decked out in leather lined with soft white fur, carefully stitched to his size. Sometimes being a fur trader had its perks.