DARZA: Who are you!? You got no business with us! Ahhh, come to steal my prize, is it? Can't be lettin' you do that. 5,000 Goth on this one's head, and I'm keen to collect! There's knifework to be done, lads. Gut 'em!
[They find themselves unlikely allies.]
CANOPUS: You're a rare breed of bounty hunter.
XAPAN: Bounty this, bounty that...I'm just a mercenary. And you, you're not from these isles: Feathers the wrong color. The mainland, is it?
CANOPUS: Yes, as it happens. A mercenary, like yourself. Not in over your head, by any chance?
XAPAN: Old Xapan, in over his head? Ha! I'm tempred in a hundred battles. When I stare death in the eye, death blinks. It'll take more than a handful of pirates to do for me!
DARZA: Good. I like a challenge!
[Together they defeat the pirate gang.]
DARZA: A pirate's death...for me.
XAPAN: A tight scrape, that. Don't think I'd have made it on my own.
DENAM: The pirate - he mentioned a bounty. Who are you?
XAPAN: No criminal, if that's what you're thinking. I'm a Walister, same as you. Hired on with the Resistance, but my boss man died on the Psonji Weald 'fore I saw a single Goth. Any road, I must've left an impression on the Galgastani. They went and put a bounty on my head.
DENAM: Then it's true. The Resistance lost in Psonji.
XAPAN: Plenty dead on all sides. I reckon both armies are headed home to lick their wounds. But don't worry, the duke's alive. Way I see it, he owes me some coin. I'm off to Almorica to collect. Say, you're not headed that way are you? If you need another sword, you can hire mine for a song.
[CHOICE 1 - Why not?]
DENAM: We could use all the help we can get.
XAPAN: It's a deal, then. And don't forget your part of the bargain, eh? When we reach Almorica, be sure and tell the duke you hired me on. We'll throw it on top of what he owes me.
[CHOICE 2 - The risk is too great.]
DENAM: A wanted man in our midst might draw unwanted attention.
XAPAN: Now that's a pity. I thought we'd get on like geese on bread. Be seein' you round then.
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