Director Fruza, Guild Import Director of Nexus

"Do you see this feather, Matheson? Careful I don't tickle you with it." Fruza said.

Two years later:

"I told you not to motivate me to tickle you with this feather, Matheson, the Black Heron's feathers hurt when they tickle you the wrong way..."

"Noo, aaah, stop, please! I'll do anything you want..."

— Matheson the lifeless' diary, 767AoS.

"Do you have any idea how much it cost to bring that fighter over? And you let him escape!"

"I can't fly, he can!"

"And you couldn't even catch the other one, but that one can't fly."

"Rokku 'the golden lion'? He bowled through a support pillar of the arena like it wasn't there!"

"Good thing for you, someone bet on his victory, now I get to go ask some questions..."

— Fuza and Matheson the lifeless, near the ruins of the Firewander Dock Arena

"Noura Yasin, how did you know to bet on Rokku? Many won, but only you won a significant amount."

"You have some nerve, coming into Lady Griswolde's own Mansion, tying me up like this!"

Fruza tickled the ropes, with the long black and white feather attached to a handle, normally stuck through his belt, but in his hand at this occasion, and the ropes sang and loosened enough for Noura to shake off, and stand. "Apologies, my people take security very seriously. I hear you're friends with one of my associates..."

"What? Who?"

"They call him 'blue eyes'."

"That was just this one time, I ran into him at the Casino. He's an associate? Then the casino's 'sanctioned'?"

"No, that wouldn't be profitable, the casino belongs to some independants, who have powerful friends, indeed. How do you know about sanctions?"

"I started out in the pleasure houses, even my best friends don't know that. I ended up a favorite of Factor Bjorn, before he got all tangled up with that Fae bitch and he stopped paying to be with me, I moved on to other clients, but he was, as we call them in the trade, a talker."

"Yes, him and blue eyes talk a lot... And where would you have gotten a silver talent to bet that much?"

"I got a big order from a customer, and I bet my whole share of it, I felt lucky. I'm a big fan of Rokku, he's soo handsome."

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