Take both
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“Why not both?” you ask, half to yourself. You lift yourself up off the woman and roll her over. She doesn't resist as you pull her tangled hands back and wind the threads tighter around both her wrists and her ankles. In short order, you've bound her like a prize catch.
"You and the boat. Both mine," you tell her.
The woman contemplates this. "Ah, the path of greed then."
You leave her tied on the deck of the boat as you grab the oars and row yourself out. A disquieting fog rolls in as you drift further from the shore. It's so thick that for a moment you lose sight of the hog-tied figure at your feet. When the fog passes, she is suddenly gone – vanished with the wind!
Oh well, no matter. This will cut days off your journey! You've avoided dealing with the villages of the Smutititty Hills, with their petty squabbles and nasty inns. You can lose yourself in the business of Forplé and beyond that, there is nothing but the true emptiness of the Jaklands.
In the far distance up-river rises the wall of a great city; the first true stonework you can seen since you left home.
Your journey through the Smutititty Hills is already completed!
