Relieved for the dwarves’ muscle, Eltrezar leaves the Trading Post and begins to make haste towards the Inn of the Welcome Wench.
The youngster makes to dash away as well on Gremag’s instruction, but Luban catches the stable’s groom by the arm as tries to pass by. The youth looks at the half-orc before him and begins stammering. "Th-they.. I uh… the bosses, they says for me to go fetch, uh…. Fetch the guards. They, uh…. Misters Gremag and Rannos say that they, uh, they want an investigation about our Man-at-Arms." The kid shrugs, as if to say, "I’m just the errand boy.". He weakly attempts to pull away from Luban.
Shorter, fatter Rannos steps towards the thief, dagger ready, but stops short, seeing Thurig step in his way, but the merchant merely grins at the dwarf, looking at the bandages around the man’s waist. "You’ll do well to advise your friend to unhand my employee, and allow him to carry out our orders, lest those wrappings around your waist be insufficient to keep your innards, innards."
Meanwhile, Gremag scoffs at Maloria’s demand to view the business ledgers. "Ahaha! Read the ledger books..." He shakes his head. "As if! Perhaps Canon Terjon has either exaggerated or simply left you in the dark as to the true length of St. Cuthbert’s arm in the village of Hommlet, for his reach is not quite as long as you seem to think it is. The church is new, and the costs for its annual upkeep are quite generously funded, both financially and in materials and goods, by this very trading post. We grow rather proud of our business’s efforts to help those in our community through both deeds and in giving access to their faith, even if we ourselves are no worshippers of the cudgel. But make no mistake: wile our purse opens for your church often; our ledger books shall not. Even under the the ‘command of your church’". Of course I’ve never know Canon Terjon to look a gift horse so closely in the mouth. Perhaps we shall request his audience as well, and see perhaps if the man is having misgivings as to the sources of funding we provide for the church?"
