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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3389641" data-attributes="member: 3448">Some distance away, in the Exchange, “Lady Sepulva” quietly negotiated with a merchant who sought protection for a drowan refugee, Destak of Three-interlocking-lozenges.  [I don't think that's actually his house name; I think it's a description of his house's symbol.  I'll try to get the actual name from the GM.]“You said he was powerful; in what way?”“He is a magus, fallen somewhat out of favor back home.”  The merchant adopted an overly casual manner, deliberately aping nonchalance.  “But here, what does the matron mother matter;  if her name were Dispania?  Not that it is Dispania, but what difference would it make?”“None that I can see.”“And if no difference here, what difference in far Enclaves?  Even less.  And he would be bound to your beck and call if you gave him shelter.”Lady Sepulva mulled this over and then pressed the point.  “And how would he be bound?  Would he give some token of faith?”“If you demanded one, he would give it.  He would not survive on the surface without your aid.”“As a member of my house, he would be under my protection.  I take it his fall from favor was not caused by disloyalty?”“No… his sister arose to the position of matron mother, and she much favors his younger brother.”“Ah, family politics.”  Lady Sepulva nodded in understanding, and then gestured to the merchant to continue.“Where should he come in the third hour past nightfall?”“To the suite I maintain.”  Lady Sepulva gave the name of her inn.  “If he can manage to gain entrance to the chamber without anyone in the house knowing it, I will be impressed.”“I will see that he is informed, and I will say, Lady Sepulva, that you have gained a bargain worth its weight in gold.”“For the sake of our future dealings, I hope it turns out as well as you suggest.”Over the course of the afternoon’s trading session, a change overtook the dynamics of the contacts with Lady Sepulva.  As people realized that she had an interest in rumors, they began offering to sell rumors to her.  Her late, lamented husband had a reputation for honesty, which also encouraged the information merchants.  They could not know that Lady Sepulva privately thought Lord Sepulva’s honesty to be charmingly quaint.  Some of the information merchants were remarkably unsavory-- Lady Sepulva was surprised to learn that Lord Sepulva had had any contacts that would make her uncomfortable.  Still, the key thing was that they offered useful information.</blockquote>

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