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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hillsy7" data-source="post: 6736874" data-attributes="member: 6689191">Burrai SteelbornBurrai let the insult bleed into the silence, dropped like a pound of Orc flesh onto a King's table in the middle of a banquet. Then with slow steps walked over to the table. Uthal stood beside his stool, and Burrai didn't halt until he was looking almost straight upwards. He might be tall for a dwarf, but the bearder visage, haloed with white hair like a moon limned with a thick mist. He cleared his throat."You should know well enough I can't let a slight like that pass. Retribution must be had, honour defended." Reaching up Burrai closed one hand and rapped the old mercenary lightly on the top of the head. "Naughty!". Then his face broke into a grin and he clasped forearms with Uthel amicably. Two warriors having seen a far different amount of years, but both old nevertheless, and you either fostered respect, or one killed  the other. "God's curse it Uthal, but you always did have a an acid tongue sharp enough for a Artani assassin's dirk. I'm both surprised and glad someone hasn't tried to cut it out at the neck yet.""You couldn't, you old goat. You're two feet too short to reach it!" Uthal laughed hard and Burrai smiled. "What dragged you back here anyway? Heard you'd gone native, put on a dress and found an old hut to dust and clean." Uthal gestured to a seat and Burrai hauled himself atop it."I had a lot of thinking to do Uthal, something I know doesn't come easy to you. Besides, fending off offers of work from Farrik took up most of my time." Burrai gestures for Uthal to keep eating, ignoring the confused and slightly admiring stares from the other mercenaries."Still searching for gold in them books?" Uthal said around a mouthful of some kind of grey, spicy stew."What's in there is more valuable than any currency you care to name - though obviously worthless to an illiterate oaf such as yourself." Uthal laughed and started to reply, but Burrai held up a hand. "As fun as it is to trade insults, Uthal. I do actually come here on business. Two pieces actually. The first I'll have to clear with Kadar - it's all contracts and insurance and other things you've never shown much interest in. I'm going to be out of town for some time and I'm renting out my homestead to a young businessdwarf, perhaps with a view for a permanent sale. I need an escort for him and, well, a contract for someone to keep an eye on the place. Just in case. Like I said, that's Kadar's side of things...."Burrai lowered his voice slightly. "The second, however, might be open for a...freelance contractor shall I say. Just information mainly on a couple of people I need to speak to about some important transactions before I go. I know a little myself, but it's been some time since I refreshed my knowledge and things can change in the swing of a sword, as you well know." Burrai traced the scarred ravine running down his face. "I might not be back for some time so I need my business as lucrative as possible without negotiations....."So just information, on two men, on what they've been doing in the past year or so. I'm sure you know of them: Jarahdrin and Jabbar...."</blockquote>

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