"Hey," he says, mildly offended. "I am a great storyteller. I'm just getting started."
Leaning up against the table he does the objectively rude thing - pointing with his cup - and takes another sip of coffee. Her assumption isn't wrong; Nate has, in the past, screwed a couple clients out of larger prizes affiliated with the one they were searching for. He's also assisted in the aversion of complete assholes getting a hold of major sources of old world ephemera that would have qualified as biological warfare. Sometimes ya gotta.
"We've been looking for this stuff for...Jesus, years. Decades. This was our break."
As he speaks Nate gets considerably more animated, tugged into his own narrative.
"See, there was this pirate - Henry Avery - who managed to pull off one of the biggest naval heists in known history. Hundreds of millions in gold from a fleet of ships that he stowed away, and then he disappeared off the face of the earth. Nobody knows what happened to him or the treasure."
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Leaning up against the table he does the objectively rude thing - pointing with his cup - and takes another sip of coffee. Her assumption isn't wrong; Nate has, in the past, screwed a couple clients out of larger prizes affiliated with the one they were searching for. He's also assisted in the aversion of complete assholes getting a hold of major sources of old world ephemera that would have qualified as biological warfare. Sometimes ya gotta.
"We've been looking for this stuff for...Jesus, years. Decades. This was our break."
As he speaks Nate gets considerably more animated, tugged into his own narrative.
"See, there was this pirate - Henry Avery - who managed to pull off one of the biggest naval heists in known history. Hundreds of millions in gold from a fleet of ships that he stowed away, and then he disappeared off the face of the earth. Nobody knows what happened to him or the treasure."