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Kip sed

"Please don’t tell me you’ve lost a number of coins, but you can’t remember exactly how many" The man smiled humorlessly and sipped at his kopi

"No Um" Kip lowered his voice "A knife in a sheath, about this long, white ray skin on the ulass eames"

"I’m serious"

The man took another sip of his kopi, rolled his eyes, and went to a box behind his desk He began ruh old cloaks and trousers "Slaves clean the rooms, you know Shifty lot No morals Thieves half the ti out that--" He stopped speaking

Kip heard the un out of its sheath His heart leapt

The man came back to the counter and laid the blade on the counter It was the real thing His eyes ide

Kip swept it off the counter "It ht, uh, be wiser for you to not tell anyone about this," he said "Um, I didn’t mean that to sound like a threat I meant it’s kind of incredibly i for it, maybe you haven’t ever seen it and don’t knohat they’re talking about? And if you ever find out which slave brought it here, tell the"

The man sipped his kopi nonchalantly There were beads of sweat on his forehead, though

I don’t have anywhere to conceal a big knife

As if it weren’t terribly conspicuous, Kip took the knife and stuck it up his sleeve, the hilt concealed as htened his belt with one hand

Girding up uess

Loins Kip didn’t like the word

The secretary cleared his throat "Is there anything else I can help you with?" he asked

Oh, Kip was stalling

"No Thanks again" Then he was off