Starglow Basin We're bad people and we do bad things

Tierra had run enough diplomacy missions for Germanicus to be sure that Osiel was wrong. Before she could argue, though, he made her an offer. It didn’t matter if he had no confidence in her results. All that mattered was that he agreed to let her try.

If he was right then she was fucked anyway, right? So it wasn’t like it mattered.

You got it. She grinned, the first one to feel close to real in a while, and turned to go. So long as Soto didn’t screw anything up in the meantime, this should be easy peasy. She’d wait another week or two, let her injuries get to a reasonable spot, then hop over to Akashingo. They went nuts for formalities and were all into being treated like the sun shone out of both ends. Flatter them, make a deal, then get the hell out.

What could go wrong?