( This, with the compassion of a man who has discovered the fount of patience at the very bottom of his brandy cup and seems determined to sip of it at great and copious length. ) No, of course we'll treat your women fairly. We won't subject them to the hardships of the deck, in recognition of their natural frailty, but we will, of course, grant them every liberty.
( But his hand comes up, palm outward. Hold. ) That is to say, if we take them. Which, being forty, I admit... Mr. Kirk, you're in something of a predicament. You have nothing to give, and a great deal to ask.
( Far too much for one lone man to deliver. But. ) However, the Dawn's Reach Trade Company is not... without generosity. You're stranded with Captain Vane, heading in his direction. There isn't much we can do for you as dead. But if you engage to complete the mission he didn't... seeing you are already bound there... we can have an agreement.
( And another pause, then: ) We have three excellent whores, by the way.
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( This, with the compassion of a man who has discovered the fount of patience at the very bottom of his brandy cup and seems determined to sip of it at great and copious length. ) No, of course we'll treat your women fairly. We won't subject them to the hardships of the deck, in recognition of their natural frailty, but we will, of course, grant them every liberty.
( But his hand comes up, palm outward. Hold. ) That is to say, if we take them. Which, being forty, I admit... Mr. Kirk, you're in something of a predicament. You have nothing to give, and a great deal to ask.
( Far too much for one lone man to deliver. But. ) However, the Dawn's Reach Trade Company is not... without generosity. You're stranded with Captain Vane, heading in his direction. There isn't much we can do for you as dead. But if you engage to complete the mission he didn't... seeing you are already bound there... we can have an agreement.
( And another pause, then: ) We have three excellent whores, by the way.
( To sweeten the deal. )