Which feels weird. That Lucius should understand. Not that dealings with the Ministry were ever particularly wholesome, from strategic donations of galleons through to threatening the right families to achieve an end, but those were politicians. He folds one leg over the other. "You caught me on my way back to Sobek Croix from a meeting. Two gentlemen-- fences, interested in the purchase of fog items-- in an apartment I'm quite sure wasn't theirs. I've a notion it went well enough.
"I've been trying at this." Already, he means. Talking to the natives, or the not-so-natives who've been here a trifle longer than himself. "And I would prefer to work, additionally, with a commodity of higher value," and he tips cane in a subtle lean to indicate the conversation at hand.
Time is money, and all, and more money means a little more time before things are terrible again.
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Which feels weird. That Lucius should understand. Not that dealings with the Ministry were ever particularly wholesome, from strategic donations of galleons through to threatening the right families to achieve an end, but those were politicians. He folds one leg over the other. "You caught me on my way back to Sobek Croix from a meeting. Two gentlemen-- fences, interested in the purchase of fog items-- in an apartment I'm quite sure wasn't theirs. I've a notion it went well enough.
"I've been trying at this." Already, he means. Talking to the natives, or the not-so-natives who've been here a trifle longer than himself. "And I would prefer to work, additionally, with a commodity of higher value," and he tips cane in a subtle lean to indicate the conversation at hand.
Time is money, and all, and more money means a little more time before things are terrible again.