"I don't understand. Payment for what? You have our money from last night."
"Information lass. We are asking questions back and forth, and we can't let the other get a better hand because everything down here is a dance between predators. The first one that slips becomes lunch. Now I have a decided advantage over him because he only has two answers, and I have two now thanks to your arrival and am about to have my third when I ask the next question."
"What did I answer? All I said was 'I was looking for him' and 'I asked what's wrong'."
"Yes, you did. That is all you said. But, you told me a lot more. That was a lover's touch, and now you are sitting not with, but on him. He was a Guardsman, drummed out of service and you just answered for me the 'why', which would have been a
