Six Confirms a Rumor

originally posted February 20, 2007

The Six Girl has been working the Stadium of Tarns and surrounding streets of late. The fellows there are a little rough trade, but good, hard-working sorts. Tarn Keepers. Leather Workers. 'Honest pay for an honest day' men. It is a good place to put a girl to good use. She has not failed to make her quota in the taverns and alleyways thereabout as yet.
Rather than have her wander around aimlessly with the advertisement embroidered across the rear hem of her silk, I have directed her to peddle herself in the taverns Green Faction riders and adherents patronize. The season will start soon and gossip tells that the Greens will have at least one new bird, first thought to be a tawny scrapper from the aeries of Thentis, but later discovered to be from the canopies of the rainforest. A green bird for the Green riders. Small and sleek with a nasty temperment. When I questioned the Six Girl, she confirmed what I had heard. Men tend to speak freely around slaves. They are only girls.
I am not, I should mention, a follower of the Green riders. My faction patch is silver. There is nothing nefarious about sending a whore into the den of my faction's rivals. She earns well there and my curiosity is sated. The Green faction was good last season and promises to be the chief obstacle for the Silvers, if they are to prevail when the points are all tallied at year-end. I do not doubt that men of the competing factions have their own way of gleaning such information from the Silvers. I am not one to bet heavily, but many do. It is well they bet, in such instances, not only with their hearts but with an informed mind.