Sending crystal announcement

[mythalenaste]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Pel Ashara
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Announcing the publication of her first book
WHEN: After Weisshaupt/Western Approach things calm down a bit
WHERE: Skyhold

[A somewhat monotone voice is heard over the crystals.]

It's Pel. Of Clan Ashara. I've written a book and it's published now. It's about Dalish culture. I will be selling it at my yarn shop until the new Divine is elected, at which point it will be banned because it's a book about elves written by an elf. So buy it while you can.

[What? She's not a hawker. She's not a beggar, either.

She'll hang around on the crystal in case anyone has questions.]

Comments

[judgemewhole]

Hmmm, let me think. One for me, one for all my people. One for Adelaide, one for Sam, one for Madame Vivienne. One for Eirlys, one for Ingrid. Should get one for Cullen as well, and one for Zevran.

[He's clearly thinking this one over.] Let's see, you're getting one for Cyril, yes? Then fifteen copies to start.

[mythalenaste]

...I have twenty. There's another shipment coming in a week. I'll have to write to my publisher and ask for more.

[judgemewhole]

Oh, all right. I can wait. Will I need to pay extra?

[mythalenaste]

No...? Is that traditional, to charge people extra for buying things at a different time than they would have?

[judgemewhole]

Well, typically you would charge someone for shipping fees so you don't have to pay them. Perhaps a little extra on top of that, if you are looking to make a slightly larger profit margin for yourself.

[Once the son of a merchant king, always the son of a merchant king.]

[mythalenaste]

I'll have to come back to you in a few minutes about that after I can do some ciphering. But I suppose you can expect to pay at least a portion of the shipping fees. Technically, you already are.

[judgemewhole]

Fair enough. Please feel free to charge me a little extra for the trouble. It can go towards your next publication.

[mythalenaste]

Thank you.

[judgemewhole]

Consider me my need to become a scholar.

[mythalenaste]

Beg pardon?

[judgemewhole]

You know, if the entire Templar Order thing falls through. I shall have to become a scholar myself.

[mythalenaste]

Oh. Well, it's poor-paying work.

[judgemewhole]

I have not been wealthy since I was a boy. I think I could manage.

[mythalenaste]

But you were a templar. You had food and bed and all sort of provided, didn't you?

[judgemewhole]

That we did, through the generosity of the Chantry. I know that is more than most, but not as much as the nobility.

[mythalenaste]

Nobody has as much as the nobility. Isn't that the point?

[judgemewhole]

Hah! ... I suppose it is, at that.