tit for tat

WESSEX out of the night that covers me “Yep,” she replies, holding the bag up and giving it a little shake. The leather is damp, stained, and quite round, evidence enough that she’d done what he’d requested. “You?” she asks in quiet response, knowing that the pieces are small enough that they could have been hidden anywhere on him. However. She is a cautious woman. And while she doesn’t think Lanoch would cheat her, she needs to know he has the goods before she hands the plants over. Not that he couldn’t go to the Cataract and get some lichen himself… but she’d never know the two men to be terribly adventurous. The thought of leaving the Hollowed Grounds might have them quaking in their boots for all she knows. black as the pit from pole to pole i thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul