Chapter 7: Chapter 7 – Mercs

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"Hehehehehee!" Gei giggled and laughed as she ran back to her new home and jumped up onto the plateau. She had finally been able to take a little bit of revenge on her former family, and killed a few people who made her life miserable.

"Them weak. Or Gei strong?" Gei sat down and sighed. She sniffed the air, and frowned. "Hm. Need bath. Fish smell." She grinned. "Or guards poop pants. Smell eww."

Gei jumped down, filled her pool with water and carefully washed her body again. By the end, she frowned slightly.

"Need walls. Pervert watch." Gei stepped out of her bathing pool, and looked at her plateau. This entire area was now her home, and she had to look at it in that way.

She walked to the side of the plateau that faced the sea. She closed her eyes, and reached out. It was time to shape this area, and make it serve a purpose.

 

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"Hey! Working hard!" Gei turned towards her sea water pool angrily. She had just closed her eyes and started to smooth off the face of the plateau when she heard a splash in her pool.

She sliced a large amount of stone off the side, about twenty feet wide, and a foot deep. This extended ten feet upwards, which squared off the area she wanted to work in. She dodged the stone that fell, picked up a large shard, and formed it into a spear.

Gei dodged the jump of the wolf headed trout. When it landed, she drove the spear into the top of its head, and easily killed it. She snapped off the spear at the tip, reformed the sharp end, and pinned the second one to the stone as well.

"Stupid fish. Make salt for fish" Gei worked quickly, and separated out pure water from the sea water. She cleansed the salt slime by absorbing up the organic matter as life elements, and any earth elements. All that remained was pure salt.

"Sala or me? Need supper. Fish supper." As she brined the fish, she wondered if fish could be dried like meat, and turned into jerky. Jerky was salted, cooked, and dried meat. Why couldn't she smoke the fish in the same way?

After she used her dagger to slice open the belly of the fish, and took out the guts, Gei put the two large trout in the new pool she wanted to use to salt fish. She put in pure water, added a lot of salt, and set the fish in the salt brine.

"Guts garbage." Gei thought for a moment, and made a square stone box. She put the guts in there, and left them for now.

"Need real tub. Need firewood." Gei looked at the stone face, and frowned again. She looked up at the sky, and sighed.

"Now. Take salt Lise. Take fish Lise. Wood after."

 

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"Lise." Gei said as she walked up to her stall. Lise looked at the trout she carried, as well as the sack of salt.

"I didn't think you would be able to catch another one so quickly." She said, and placed seven large silver on the counter. "Your share of the two fillets. I sold them to the governor for ten large silver."

"Sell fish. Clean, salt." Gei put the fish and the salt on the counter. She would let Lise handle how she would preserve it. Lise rolled her eyes. "What?"

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"You don't even know how outside of normal this is, do you?" Lise asked her.

"Weak three day ago. Stronger now. Not stupid. Fish stupid. Swim my trench." Gei said. She knew the stories, and why Lise felt this was out of the ordinary.

Fishermen eaten down to the bones. Even iron clad boats are sunk after the bigger fishes get to them. The sea is nothing but a nightmare for travelers. No one tempts the monsters that live in the depths of the sea.

"Fine. I should be able to sell this one too." Lise said, and looked around. "There are eyes on you, Gei. Mercs."

"Gei safe. Mercs stupid like fish. Oh, need lamps. Dark. Not work dark." Gei wouldn't tell Lise where her home was. People would eventually find out when she properly changed the exterior to match what she wanted it to look like.

"I have two in stock. Just put in fat, or oil." She put both on the counter. "One large silver each." Gei frowned.

"Lise, metal. Price wrong." She asked. Lise sighed.

"I don't make much, just a bit at a time. If I didn't keep the prices low, no one would come here to buy." Lise said in a low tired tone.

"Lise friend. Not cheat friend. One wrong. What right?" Gei asked her.

"Three large silver for the pair." Lise said.

"And oil?"

"Five silver. Oil and fat is easy to extract when rendering fat for soap." Lise said.

"Four large." Four large silver, that meant forty silver as Lise would only charge twenty for the two. "One oil, two lamps, wicks. Need grill. Fire. Pan spill." Gei said. Lise thought for a moment.

"I can get Ern to make one for you. Two large silver. It will be made with feet so it can be hung over a fire, or turned into a stand. Do you want a three legged pot holder too?" Lise smiled.

"Yep. Here. Sell. We split. Lise not buy now. Business better, buy. Now, not good." Gei put her things in her pack, put her pack on her back, and walked out of the town.

Lise watched as a group of seven followed not far behind. She wondered if Gei would be able to fight the small group, or if she would get injured.

"Poor girl. How is anyone able to survive the constant attacks like this?" Although Lise had already seen what she could do, and knew it was foolish to try to go fishing, she didn't equate that to Gei having real power.

Gei was a little girl in her eyes, not a powerhouse. The Mercenary Union had been hired to eliminate the threat to the business interests of the Griel clan, and quickly found out that their target was a child. They didn't take it seriously, and only sent enough men to corner her so she couldn't run away.

The mercenaries didn't realize how much skill it took to kill two wolf headed trout. Some of the older men within the Union did, but they weren't aware that the target was the one that killed those fish. If they were, they would have quickly voiced their concerns. If those concerns were ignored, they would move to another town.

If the mercenaries could do what Gei did, they would. It would be easier fighting those fish then fighting someone like Gei.

The mercenaries would only know what kind of monster they were sent after when death came knocking on their door.

 

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