Certainly your expenses must be met regardless, but that is no concern of mine." "You will not receive any payment at all, as a result. She wanted to clutch the green and blue silk of her full skirts, to have some feeling that she could hold on to something solid and safe, a childish habit she thought she'd lost years ago. "Then do not deliver it," replied Ingray, trying to sound careless. "The package will not be delivered unless the payment is increased." "The unexpected expenses were considerable, and must be met somehow," said the dark gray blur. "The price was agreed beforehand." The price was everything she owned, not counting the clothes she wore, or passage home-already paid. "Unexpected difficulties are not my concern," she said, calmly and smoothly as she could manage. E wouldn't betray having seen even Ingray's smallest reaction, she was sure. Could not see Ingray's expression, if she let her dismay and despair show itself on her face.
Sat in an identical small room, somewhere else on this station. That other anonymous party could not see Ingray where she sat-saw her as the same sort of dark gray blur she herself faced. We will require a larger payment than previously agreed." "Unexpected difficulties," continued the dark gray blur, "that led to unanticipated expenses. She had been too nervous to even consider eating one. The table beside Ingray's chair with the gilded decanter of serbat and the delicate glass tray of tiny rose-petaled cakes was certainly real-the Facilitator had invited her to try them. Only the beige walls behind and to the right of Ingray were really as they appeared. The same to her left, where apparently the Facilitator sat, bony frame draped in brown, gold, and purple silk, hair braided sleekly back, dark eyes expressionless, watching the conversation. Ingray knew that if she reached much more than a meter past her knees, she would touch smooth, solid wall.
That blur sat in a pale blue cushioned chair, no more than a meter away from where Ingray herself sat, facing, in an identical chair. "There were unexpected difficulties," said the dark gray blur.
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