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The boy babbled in a foreign tongue, apparently pleading for mercy. Reg held up a giant finger to the intruders lips and he quietened. | The boy babbled in a foreign tongue, apparently pleading for mercy. Reg held up a giant finger to the intruders lips and he quietened. | ||
“Now,” said Reg, “I might be possessed of no great capacity for knowing things, nor figuring things, but I’m an old hand at ''believin’'' things, and '' | “Now,” said Reg, “I might be possessed of no great capacity for knowing things, nor figuring things, but I’m an old hand at ''believin’'' things, and ''surmisin’'' about things, and I believe and surmise that, what with them dark eyes and that tousled dark hair, worn in that foreign-looking way and, added to all of that, that strange way you have of saying things, that your kind is not from these parts?” | ||
The captive’s eyes widen and he says, with great reverence and in flawless, if archaic, high Lanchmani: | The captive’s eyes widen and he says, with great reverence and in flawless, if archaic, high ''Lanchmani'': | ||
“But good sir you speak in the tongue of the [[Lanchmani]]! You must, I’ll venture, a noble merchant be, on of the royal city of {{sal}}! I am greatly honoured to be bettered by so great a warrior! As is your Lanchmani protocol I [[Give up|give myself up]] to thee! I humbly [[novate]] myself to you!” | “But, good sir, you speak in the tongue of the [[Lanchmani]]! You must, I’ll venture, a noble merchant be, on of the royal city of {{sal}}! I am so very greatly honoured to be bettered by so great a warrior! As is your Lanchmani protocol, I [[Give up|give myself up]] to thee! I humbly [[novate]] myself to you!” | ||
“Who, or what, little man, are you?” | Reg furrowed his colossal ginger brow. “Who, or what, little man, are you?” | ||
“Paripasu .. . V... Vlad Paripasu,” he squeaked. “but a humble scholar from the lands to East and South, I have journeyed many arduous days from my mountain home in search of the wisdom of the great Lanchmani, and to learn their ways.” | |||
Now Reg wasn’t of the [[Lanchmani]] at all, but was an indentured peasant, a ''[[morlock|Mohlok]]'', engaged by the Lanchmani to keep the city’s engine running and royal sewerage system clean, but he figured there was no call to disabuse his captive of his sense of grandiosity. | Now Reg wasn’t of the [[Lanchmani]] at all, but was an indentured peasant, a ''[[morlock|Mohlok]]'', engaged by the Lanchmani to keep the city’s engine running and royal sewerage system clean, but he figured there was no call to disabuse his captive of his sense of grandiosity. | ||
“Well that's as may be, see, but, humble scholar or not, you be still pinching my stuff. And we can't be having that.” | |||
Reg | “Ah no, no, no,” muttered the little fellow, and Reg had it in his mind that he was scheming or plotting something. | ||
“Pinching? Stealing? Oh, no Sir! But I can see why you might be confused —” | Seeing as you seem a cunning little fellow, how about — and Reg fell silent, and with a thick hemp rope, bound the Carpathian trickster to a tree. | ||
After a while, he said, “Pinching? Stealing? Oh, no Sir! But I can see why you might be confused —” | |||
“I en’t confused — not so as no more than normal, least anyways — but while I decide what I best be doing with you, perhaps you can tells me why you be stealing my stocks?” | “I en’t confused — not so as no more than normal, least anyways — but while I decide what I best be doing with you, perhaps you can tells me why you be stealing my stocks?” | ||