[What are they, some kind of... frontier people? Neither of them are particularly suited to that sort of task, he feels. Ugh, the pains of living in some rundown countryside village...]
At the moment such requests are beyond reason.
[Van Zieks would really not like to go back into the wilderness just yet, and there's no way he's allowing Miss Mikotoba to go without him. ... but he really would prefer to not leave this shop not having paid his debt, so to speak.]
Perhaps I could offer a drink in exchange.
[if she takes that as a proposition he is going to regret everything]
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At the moment such requests are beyond reason.
[Van Zieks would really not like to go back into the wilderness just yet, and there's no way he's allowing Miss Mikotoba to go without him. ... but he really would prefer to not leave this shop not having paid his debt, so to speak.]
Perhaps I could offer a drink in exchange.
[
if she takes that as a proposition he is going to regret everything]