Special Cargo
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feredarStory: Special Cargo
Year: 981 FY
Characters: Taz and Kor Hantree
An interesting side effect of captaining one of the fastest ships her Clan owned was that Taz got some of the more exotic cargoes. In the year since being given the Glory, she'd carried parrots and various perishable fruits and flowers from the islands, and all manner of local produce back.
But this trip was a special one--Kor had approached her personally, with a special order for the Grand Duke of Asendar.
"His daughter's gettin' married, and she wants hibiscus flowers for it," he'd informed her.
"Right. Anythin' else I need to take?"
"No, just the flowers. You up for it?"
Taz had mixed feelings about it, to tell the truth--special courier assignments like this one were good ways to improve one's career, but they also cut into her actual profits. Especially since diplomacy trades didn't generally yield valuable return cargoes.
Like the time she'd carried a dozen crates of very loud, annoying, messy purple-tailed fan lizards and gotten a dozen crates of mustard seed oil in exchange.
But at least this one would be necessarily quick, to make sure the flowers didn't die. And, hell, a Grand Duke was likely to give her a personal payment as well as whatever he and the Lady had agreed on.
"Yeah," she finally answered. "Should be fun. I like Asendar."
Kor smiled at her. "I'll have the flowers loaded up in the mornin' for you to head out. Good luck."
"Got it," she said, then wandered off to track down her crew and let them know they were leaving earlier than planned for a Special.
Year: 981 FY
Characters: Taz and Kor Hantree
An interesting side effect of captaining one of the fastest ships her Clan owned was that Taz got some of the more exotic cargoes. In the year since being given the Glory, she'd carried parrots and various perishable fruits and flowers from the islands, and all manner of local produce back.
But this trip was a special one--Kor had approached her personally, with a special order for the Grand Duke of Asendar.
"His daughter's gettin' married, and she wants hibiscus flowers for it," he'd informed her.
"Right. Anythin' else I need to take?"
"No, just the flowers. You up for it?"
Taz had mixed feelings about it, to tell the truth--special courier assignments like this one were good ways to improve one's career, but they also cut into her actual profits. Especially since diplomacy trades didn't generally yield valuable return cargoes.
Like the time she'd carried a dozen crates of very loud, annoying, messy purple-tailed fan lizards and gotten a dozen crates of mustard seed oil in exchange.
But at least this one would be necessarily quick, to make sure the flowers didn't die. And, hell, a Grand Duke was likely to give her a personal payment as well as whatever he and the Lady had agreed on.
"Yeah," she finally answered. "Should be fun. I like Asendar."
Kor smiled at her. "I'll have the flowers loaded up in the mornin' for you to head out. Good luck."
"Got it," she said, then wandered off to track down her crew and let them know they were leaving earlier than planned for a Special.