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"Certainly, certainly! I could throw in - two crowns for taking this on top of the letter packet, to the same place? That's assuming it's not too much more of an inconvenience?"

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"That'll be more than enough as long as I have clear delivery instructions! 'Siroc' isn't specific enough! I don't suppose you do bills of lading or shipment receipts here? I dunno how much paperwork you want to throw at this."

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"Oh, you'll take the whole thing to the Ezmara enclave, I'll - hmm, it's going to be inefficient for you to pay for directions, isn't it? If we copied the coastline of the harbour map off a sea chart, you could use a position on that, as you don't care where the streets are?"

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"I can get to Siroc from here once I get high up enough, I saw the big map earlier. Just need to know where in Siroc the enclave is. I can ask people if I can't find it." She shrugs.

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"Marilla, you can copy maps tolerably, yes?"

With some additional faff, Lenora is eventually issued with a bundle of papers wrapped in a sturdy waxed cloth, a letter of introduction also setting out what she is to be paid on arrival which is signed by the Dhomiro in some unsettling ruddy brown ink from a small vial which does in fact contain blood, a quickly sketched coast / harbour map with a red dot at the delivery point, and the desalinator back.

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