<And with that, our lord can finally sleep easy and not have to think about the consequences of his actions...for now.>
=Right...=
<Huh? You good? You sound mildly judgmental.>
=Well...yeah, it's just...I don't know, do you think we might have gone overboard with the compensation?=
<I don't think so, we just did as instructed. We fixed that warehouse, compensated for the destroyed goods as a result of our conflict, fixed the ship that we accidentally broke and scrambled the memories of that random cabin boy....with a gift.>
=I guess, but..."
<But what?>
=As much as I like flexing my recently engineering knowledge, are you sure it was a good idea to install an aether engine on that ship?=
<We didn't have access to coal.>
=But were the pneumatic messenger tubes necessary?=
<Abso-fucking-lutely.>
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