Of course. ( Another wave. Cordial conversation finds him mightily agreeable. ) Of course, say no more. I understand sailors. In the academy, I was a sailor.
( For all of five minutes, before his merit-gained, certainly not financed promotion. He is a man who has earned every stripe he is not wearing. )
We gave Mr. Vane the, you will admit, generous opportunity to strike a commercial partnership and a long-standing alliance with the Dawn's Reach Trade Company. We are an organisation that offers... stability to markets, which are so often unbalanced in curious times. Chaos is a troubling thing, Mr. Kirk.
( A nod, for surely Mr. Kirk will agree. ) You might think what we do is... pinch opium here, sew silks there, plunder ore, or thieve magical instruments from where we are not welcome. But I ask you — take these whores you are clearly enamoured with. Let us assume... there were no more whores. All brothels were forever closed, due to a whim of your government, or a great natural disaster that has struck every pleasure house of your realm, or... even worse. Say you never discovered whores.
( This... with great sadness in his heart. What a striking exercise of the imagination. )
What would the miracle of a whore's discovery be worth to you, at a time of scarcity? Of ignorance? Mr. Kirk, the role we occupy is more than that of simple tradesmen. We make the impossible possible. We are... explorers. Adventures. Purveyors.
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( For all of five minutes, before his merit-gained, certainly not financed promotion. He is a man who has earned every stripe he is not wearing. )
We gave Mr. Vane the, you will admit, generous opportunity to strike a commercial partnership and a long-standing alliance with the Dawn's Reach Trade Company. We are an organisation that offers... stability to markets, which are so often unbalanced in curious times. Chaos is a troubling thing, Mr. Kirk.
( A nod, for surely Mr. Kirk will agree. ) You might think what we do is... pinch opium here, sew silks there, plunder ore, or thieve magical instruments from where we are not welcome. But I ask you — take these whores you are clearly enamoured with. Let us assume... there were no more whores. All brothels were forever closed, due to a whim of your government, or a great natural disaster that has struck every pleasure house of your realm, or... even worse. Say you never discovered whores.
( This... with great sadness in his heart. What a striking exercise of the imagination. )
What would the miracle of a whore's discovery be worth to you, at a time of scarcity? Of ignorance? Mr. Kirk, the role we occupy is more than that of simple tradesmen. We make the impossible possible. We are... explorers. Adventures. Purveyors.
( ...of whores? )
Do you understand?