Discussion Between Pepe Benitez and Juno Kietan

[Unseelie]

"I am not going to kill you. And, you are strangely innocent...'forget the hardships of real life'...no. Cardamine is life. You feel only the pains of hunger and thirst, not the third. I live on cardamine...mock you? If cardamine is mocking you, how could I not? A day without cardamine is a day without water, a day without air, a day of burning, shrieking pain. And, everywhere I go...everywhere, I'm made to chose...another day in anguish, or be hunted out, stalked by the houses, stalked by the corsairs...or what....I could go to malta...I could traffic the drug that destroys me...I could poison more lives..."

"But I wont. So, here I in the arse end of Sirius, enduring withdrawal and shock every day, and I do sell your artifacts. And guess who buys em? Outcasts. Bye the crate. On Malta dockyards."

"Ill take you back to Crete."