Quickleaf
Legend
Bidding on the rainbow obsidian skull rises above 200 dinars (gp) amidst the clamor of men who've indulged in too much palm wine. Several guards poorly attempting to blend in with the rest, keep an eye on your dealings with their mistress, Jina the Bold.
[SBLOCK=Akilah]Having seen Jina the Bold slicing a pear and drinking palm wine is enough to lay bear the trader's secrets...some of them at least...to Akilah. She is clearly high-born, judging from her haughty air with Salahuddin, the way she seems to look down on the men serving her, and how she seems to hold the simple ceramic cup with an air of wistfulness for finer things. Moreover, her way of flaunting her barely legal enterprise almost seems exaggerated to Akilah's eyes, as if she were reacting to a conservative or moralist household; it wouldn't be surprising if the entire image of "Jina the Bold" disguised a runaway from the Pantheist League. Akilah suspects that keeping this secret is of utmost importance to Jina, for it might ruin her carefully constructed reputation as a hard-dealing merchant-rogue.[/SBLOCK]
[SBLOCK=Salahuddin]Easifa plays with a discarded date pit, which floats through the air moving like a fly - who would be the wiser at a place like this? He (?) conveys back what he has overhead to his master telepathically: One man whispers the skull is cursed as told to him by a trader from Qaybar, another that it is a token left behind by jann a century ago as told to him by his great grandfather. And a third man whispers that the best item of the auction is yet to come – Akdam's Traveling Spellbook.[/SBLOCK]
|
[SBLOCK=Akilah]Having seen Jina the Bold slicing a pear and drinking palm wine is enough to lay bear the trader's secrets...some of them at least...to Akilah. She is clearly high-born, judging from her haughty air with Salahuddin, the way she seems to look down on the men serving her, and how she seems to hold the simple ceramic cup with an air of wistfulness for finer things. Moreover, her way of flaunting her barely legal enterprise almost seems exaggerated to Akilah's eyes, as if she were reacting to a conservative or moralist household; it wouldn't be surprising if the entire image of "Jina the Bold" disguised a runaway from the Pantheist League. Akilah suspects that keeping this secret is of utmost importance to Jina, for it might ruin her carefully constructed reputation as a hard-dealing merchant-rogue.[/SBLOCK]
[SBLOCK=Salahuddin]Easifa plays with a discarded date pit, which floats through the air moving like a fly - who would be the wiser at a place like this? He (?) conveys back what he has overhead to his master telepathically: One man whispers the skull is cursed as told to him by a trader from Qaybar, another that it is a token left behind by jann a century ago as told to him by his great grandfather. And a third man whispers that the best item of the auction is yet to come – Akdam's Traveling Spellbook.[/SBLOCK]