Adisa nodded. "That's fine to me." She turned back to Ataashi and made a hand signal at him. Ataashi nodded and grinned, then nudged Bull in the side.
"My men can stay outside in your main camp, but Ataashi and I will stay inside the walls, so if you need us to move out there's no need to seek us out."
They were coming up on another ruin, and there were a few men outside this one. Adisa sped up, outpacing Salem's shorter legs rather effortlessly. She gestured, "Pack up the camp, we're heading back to deliver this amulet, then we're heading out." The men nodded. One went down the steps into the ruin, and the others headed for the hill, where a string of healthy horses of no determinate origin were tied, grazing. Adisa crossed to a paint gelding, an obvious war horse and suitable to carry her tall, strong frame, and dug around in the saddlebags.
She pulled out a wooden box and transferred the amulet to it, then closed it and sealed the box with magic before replacing the box in the saddlebags. Another moment of digging around and Adisa came up with a sheaf of papers. "This is a more comprehensive breakdown of our rates and services. I'll send one of my men to Skyhold with it, he'll beat us there by a week or so, since we have to detour and play the game with our current patron." She offered them out, but didn't honestly expect Salem to take them - it was boring, lists of expected expenses, timelines, rules and exceptions to certain services. Not the stuff for the patron, but the patron's man or woman in charge of handling things like the actual hiring of mercenaries.
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"My men can stay outside in your main camp, but Ataashi and I will stay inside the walls, so if you need us to move out there's no need to seek us out."
They were coming up on another ruin, and there were a few men outside this one. Adisa sped up, outpacing Salem's shorter legs rather effortlessly. She gestured, "Pack up the camp, we're heading back to deliver this amulet, then we're heading out." The men nodded. One went down the steps into the ruin, and the others headed for the hill, where a string of healthy horses of no determinate origin were tied, grazing. Adisa crossed to a paint gelding, an obvious war horse and suitable to carry her tall, strong frame, and dug around in the saddlebags.
She pulled out a wooden box and transferred the amulet to it, then closed it and sealed the box with magic before replacing the box in the saddlebags. Another moment of digging around and Adisa came up with a sheaf of papers. "This is a more comprehensive breakdown of our rates and services. I'll send one of my men to Skyhold with it, he'll beat us there by a week or so, since we have to detour and play the game with our current patron." She offered them out, but didn't honestly expect Salem to take them - it was boring, lists of expected expenses, timelines, rules and exceptions to certain services. Not the stuff for the patron, but the patron's man or woman in charge of handling things like the actual hiring of mercenaries.