Astrid follows the jerk of his chin, looking over at their last remaining problem. Considers the dilemma, as she catches Lazar’s hand and lets him tug her away from the edge and back to her shaky feet. She’s trying to remember what was in the brief, what they’d been instructed about the situation, and what they’d actually been asked to do: Clear out the bandits from around the bridge, and keep all these merchants happy.
She bites her lip— which results in an inadvertent sting of pain, realising it was split from someone’s punch. She licks the blood, swallows it.
The smart thing, probably, would be to let this last bandit and the loot go. Let bygones be bygones. Go for a celebratory drink. Consider this resolution good enough: the blockade itself is gone and the bandits likely won’t set up shop again, now knowing that Riftwatch is keeping an eye out. Done.
But there’s still that scrappy survivalist streak to her, the kind that hates leaving any meat left on the bone. Who’ll make use of anything. Thinking it through aloud in front of Lazar:
“If we get him to show us where the loot is, we can recover some for the merchants. That’d make them pleased as anything.” Brownie points for Riftwatch. And, probingly: “Maybe not all of it makes it back, either. If we wanted a bonus for our trouble, like.”
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She bites her lip— which results in an inadvertent sting of pain, realising it was split from someone’s punch. She licks the blood, swallows it.
The smart thing, probably, would be to let this last bandit and the loot go. Let bygones be bygones. Go for a celebratory drink. Consider this resolution good enough: the blockade itself is gone and the bandits likely won’t set up shop again, now knowing that Riftwatch is keeping an eye out. Done.
But there’s still that scrappy survivalist streak to her, the kind that hates leaving any meat left on the bone. Who’ll make use of anything. Thinking it through aloud in front of Lazar:
“If we get him to show us where the loot is, we can recover some for the merchants. That’d make them pleased as anything.” Brownie points for Riftwatch. And, probingly: “Maybe not all of it makes it back, either. If we wanted a bonus for our trouble, like.”