Angati:
When the man started to shout, Angati simply straightened her dress, hoping that the small trembling of her fingers due to the adrenaline now leaving her body would go unnoticed, and, as if she couldn't care less for the man she said in the coldest voice she could muster, just a bit over a whisper without even looking at the man on the floor"You see... Marek did not give me credit when I said what would happen to him if he did not talk...."
Realising that his calls for help were not going to be answered, the man fell silent.
"I ain't gunna say nothin 'bout nothing," he said surely, staring straight up and refusing to make eye contact.
"So you just be a good little lady and call the district watch."
Angati:
She paused for a minute, "He did not talk... and now.... he is no longer with us". At this point she pointedly looked at the man as she started to rummage in her pockets as if looking for something "Now... I have something in my pockets... Ahhhh ! there" she said brightly with a wide smile touching her lips as she picked up a pinch of a weird spell component from a pouch, a small piece of some leaf.
The thug's gaze was drawn to the leaf in the oracle's hand, and he swallowed hard. He had heard Marek scream all right.
Angati:
"Now, in this other pocket" she started rummaging in the other pouch... "I have this other piece here" she picked a little pice of a mushroom, "which is an antidote... there is two problems with it, you see, the poison is really cheap, but this little piece of mushroom, is really expensive, and it does not always work... so, I would rather not give you the poison, as then I am always caught up in the indecision of giving out the antidote... after all, it does not always work... and its so darn expensive... ".
"Now, just hold on!" said the thug.
Angati:
She paused there, with a dreamy look in her eyes as if thinking about something else, "So... anyway, will you talk now, or should I feed you this little leave ?. We will have a couple of minutes worth of chatting before it does its work, and I am sure you will talk then, but I'd rather avoid the expenditure... I am stringy that way you know ? I hate using my money for something that might not work after all..."
"What?! No, wait! I ain't done nothing that's worth that!"
Angati:
"So" she said making a happy little joyful clap, "Shall we start talking ? Start by telling me all about you and Darek, and then why you came here today... then move on to telling me whatever you know about this other guy that came just before you did and took the wedding dress" she did not wait for the man's response as she started powdering the leave in the palm of her hand.
"Wait! I'll tell ya, Missus! My name is Flegon and me and Marek was just having a bit of fun, like. We was hanging 'round Shadowshore and then we sees Soller comin past with a big smile on his face, so we ask him what he's doing, right? And he says that he just robbed some guy in the merchant district and he was a real push over."
"Hey!" said Bronson, but no-one paid any attention.
"So we all has a good laugh about it, and Soller tells us where he's done it. We thought we might as well come and finish the job, since we have nothin else to do. So here we are. I don't know anything about no wedding dress, I promise!"