He is a drunkard and a wastrel, ( thranduil says, still not having forgiven him for the time he had to haul the man out of the water. it was possibly another ferryman. thranduil might be bad at telling them apart.
[ She nods and smiles too, perfunctory, her best attempt at polite, and a little bit like she doesn't know how to eject from the conversation--but then she makes a face and repeats a word he used that she doesn't know the meaning of: ]
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he softens. smiles, even. )
Thank you.
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Wastrel?
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( briefly, the idea occurs to him: get one of the pirates to run the ferry. he dismisses it almost immediately. )
But I suppose I cannot cast stones. It is not my job, to row Riftwatch members back and forth all day.
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