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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hillsy7" data-source="post: 6747198" data-attributes="member: 6689191">Burrai SteelbornBurrai stepped inside Kadar's office. In truth, Burrai hadn't been away from Cabarda for just shy than two years - it had been longer. While he'd been brooding over his books, looking to divine something of importance, he'd stayed away from the mercenaries and soldiers companies that had started so many of his adventures in the past. And so Kadar's casual familiarity with his father Omar was both comforting and confusing. From his memories, Kadar looked changed: more composed, focused. It wasn't so much he'd grown into the chair he now sat in, more that he understood how it worked. They weighed each other for a moment.Burrai nodded thanks and sat, lifting and settling himself into the too high, too narrow chair human's thought everyone fit into. Kadar's own seat was deliberately slightly higher - no doubt a tactical advantage in negotiations - and so their relative eye lines were almost comically misaligned. But most dwarves dealt with that looming feeling every day. Burrai did so now by casting a slow eye around the room, lingering on the battlefield relics and maps."Good to see that appreciation of history I drilled into your father trickled down. I don't recognise half of these from my last visit. Impressive!" He made a gesture to the racks, the armour, and outside onto the training grounds. "Business is good for you at the moment, and growing judging by the freshness of some of the recruits. It seems an excellent time to come to you with some of my own business...."I'm going to leave town on personal business myself for an unknown period of time, so I'm sort of selling my home. I require a simple escort in the next few days - the sooner the better - for the new buyer. But more importantly I'd like to enter into a contract for regular checks on the property, just to make sure that should I return, my home is still in one piece. My gold is good, as I'm sure you know, and my request is that simple."He left a pause - dealing with Omar had tended to be an organic, casual affair. The few dealings he remember with Kadar had been more....clinical. But that was some time ago. So he left the offer of a simple transaction hanging, ready to be taken should Kadar want to take the option.....and then it crept up on him. The realisation he'd truly opened dealings to start out on the road again, searching for a blank text to carve Burrai's name into for all eternity - and it felt exhilarating...</blockquote>

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