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[onlyscion]

A young, eighteenth-century man enters, slightly grubby, with a leather satchel under his arm. Maybe he vaguely resembles a certain family by the name of Norrington, maybe he doesn't

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[rubysummers]

Makes sense to me. One should always be compensated for their work.

[onlyscion]

"Exactly! I deserve to be paid for my services."

[2good2betroo]

Hullo eighteenth-century young man, meet dead eighteenth-century pirate.

"Wouldn't trust the Church in that," Matthew snorts. "Not in 'should'."

[onlyscion]

"Didn't say that they were paying me, did I? Just that they should."

[2good2betroo]

"But ye want 'em to?"

[onlyscion]

"I would certainly never say no to some extra money."

[themiddleson]

Gregory looked harried. "I am working on it, Alex, I promise." He said, mildly. "It's just rather difficult."

[onlyscion]

Oh. Oops. Alex hadn't known Greg was here. "Uncle Greg! How are you? I haven't seen you since..." Two hours ago? "A very, very long time."

[themiddleson]

"Since dinner." Greg looks slightly amused. "I'm much the same as I was then, Alex."

"How did you get here?" He thought he'd hidden the entrance well! ..Granted, Gregory's idea of well-hidden is 'put a do not enter sign on it'.

[onlyscion]

Heheh. "Well. There was a sign, telling me not to enter. But there were footprints. So I followed the footprints. In case anyone was in trouble, of course."

[clarke_nova]

One would expect, surely, that an agent was paid to at least minimal extent. There is a conservation of supply and demand to preserve, after all.

[onlyscion]

I wish they saw it that way. But it's not as if I could stop, just to force them to pay me.

[clarke_nova]

An agent is expected to know what his services are worth. Did you not have in your hands some agreement about recompense? Clumsy.

[onlyscion]

I started just helping. My family's in the business. But he's part of the Church, so he doesn't need special arrangements.

[onlyscion]

"Well, I suppose. But not having a job will, I suppose, eventually become a problem. I can't go away to study for a job now.." He grins, wry, "And I'm really not cut out to be a member of the clergy."

[onlyscion]

"True. Though, right. So I'm not a member of the clergy. My uncle is, he's rather good at it. But we do other things as well, sort of for the Church. And he needs my help with them, which is why I think they should pay me. Because I can't leave to seek proper employment, even if I wanted to. Which I don't."