Styrm waved goodbye halfheartedly as Joz walked out the door. The serving girl saw his empty glass and began to walk back toward the bar. He looked out the door, Joz was gone but the sun was still out and about. Maybe he'd be lucky and still get some sleep with this early start. Otherwise, he hoped Joz didn't expect him too early the next day.
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Lolotaru finished examining and the cargo manifest as hired hands loaded the last large crate onto the wagon that ran from Wineport to Costa del Sol. The crates would there be loaded onto a pleasure boat that rented out space in its hold for cargo bound for Limsa Lominsa and beyond. In the city, it would be transferred to a larger vessel and would make the longer journey to Vesper Bay and, again by wagon, on to the markets of Ul'dah.
He looked up at the miqo'te girl next to him. She looked down at him with her round green eyes as he addressed her. "Remember, Felijha, the three smaller crates--the...eh...the Raincatcher Red, the Red Mantis Reserve, and the Agelyss Banks Signature, two dozen bottles of each--those are all going to my mother."
Felijha took back the manifest and hurriedly scribbled, whispering to herself, "Raincatcher, Mantis, Agelyss to Littlest Inn, care of Ms. Lila." A final flourish of the pen and she spoke, "Done, sir. Will that be all?"
Lolo thought for a moment. He loved Wineport. He loved the rain and the vineyards and the smell of his quarters there. He spent as much time there as he could, always personally overseeing Kodu Co.'s dealings with Agelyss Banks. Buying into the winery was one of his less considered, but more satisfying bits of personal business and although it was one of only a few ventures his Kodu Co. was involved in outside of Thanalan (and a comparatively small one, at that), it had proved to be an economic, if not entirely profitable, decision. Especially considering the unusually copious amount of wine his mother's guests imbibed during their stay at the Littlest Inn. Ul'dah could overwhelm the newcomer, particularly the more bucolically inclined Plainsfolk visitors which composed the majority of her clientele.
But he had work to get back to in the city, and a new student of his own, to boot!
"Yes, Felijha," he responded to his retainer. "Thank you, as always. Please, reserve me a space on the earliest ship back to Limsa after lunch tomorrow." He would be back by evening, meet with Styrmsthal for an update on Joz, and be back to business by the following morning, invigorated as always by his short time away. "Oh! And give Mother my love."
"Yes sir," she said with a soft smile before climbing onto the wagon. Lolo watched them for a moment, then turned and walked back inside where food, drink, books, and bags awaited him.
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Lolotaru finished examining and the cargo manifest as hired hands loaded the last large crate onto the wagon that ran from Wineport to Costa del Sol. The crates would there be loaded onto a pleasure boat that rented out space in its hold for cargo bound for Limsa Lominsa and beyond. In the city, it would be transferred to a larger vessel and would make the longer journey to Vesper Bay and, again by wagon, on to the markets of Ul'dah.
He looked up at the miqo'te girl next to him. She looked down at him with her round green eyes as he addressed her. "Remember, Felijha, the three smaller crates--the...eh...the Raincatcher Red, the Red Mantis Reserve, and the Agelyss Banks Signature, two dozen bottles of each--those are all going to my mother."
Felijha took back the manifest and hurriedly scribbled, whispering to herself, "Raincatcher, Mantis, Agelyss to Littlest Inn, care of Ms. Lila." A final flourish of the pen and she spoke, "Done, sir. Will that be all?"
Lolo thought for a moment. He loved Wineport. He loved the rain and the vineyards and the smell of his quarters there. He spent as much time there as he could, always personally overseeing Kodu Co.'s dealings with Agelyss Banks. Buying into the winery was one of his less considered, but more satisfying bits of personal business and although it was one of only a few ventures his Kodu Co. was involved in outside of Thanalan (and a comparatively small one, at that), it had proved to be an economic, if not entirely profitable, decision. Especially considering the unusually copious amount of wine his mother's guests imbibed during their stay at the Littlest Inn. Ul'dah could overwhelm the newcomer, particularly the more bucolically inclined Plainsfolk visitors which composed the majority of her clientele.
But he had work to get back to in the city, and a new student of his own, to boot!
"Yes, Felijha," he responded to his retainer. "Thank you, as always. Please, reserve me a space on the earliest ship back to Limsa after lunch tomorrow." He would be back by evening, meet with Styrmsthal for an update on Joz, and be back to business by the following morning, invigorated as always by his short time away. "Oh! And give Mother my love."
"Yes sir," she said with a soft smile before climbing onto the wagon. Lolo watched them for a moment, then turned and walked back inside where food, drink, books, and bags awaited him.
