"So basically they are making it to be unsinkable, which is impossible, but their design is pretty close." He had plans detailed plans laid out on the table, honestly this is one reason Hanlon scares me, one of several actually.
"Do I want to know how you got all this information?"
"I paid someone for it Trezlan don't be absurd." He paused considering if he should disclose something and then of course he did. "Ok so I had him killed immediately after that, but I did in fact pay him, even buried him with money I'm not a thief, I also didn't want him warning my enemies." The logic sort of held, though that the guy had sold the info to Hanlon kind of to me said he wasn't going to betray Hanlon, or if he was he'd sold him bunk info to start and the betrayal had already happened. Either way it was more telling to me that Hanlon was not a man I wanted to be considered expendable.
"Ok so how do I sink the unsinkable?"
"Blow it up, start a fire in the powder room and it'll explode the entire ship in a hail of metal and death."
"Seeems simple enough." I'm good at getting things to explode, its a trait I have I admit.
"Sure simple enough aside from the fact you'll have to ignite it while you aren't standing next to it, unless you want to explode with it."
"I see the logic in that."
"And then there is the problem that there are over a hundred people working on the ship and guarding it anytime, some of them magical."
"This just keeps getting better." I started to regret working with Hanlon all those many years ago.
"Take comfort, they will not expect one man to be able to blow up their monstrosity of a ship, so you've got that going for you."
"Swell, so you're saying I'll have no support?"
"I couldn't trust this job with anyone but you Trezlan." It was the kind of no comfort you get from someone telling you they are sending you in alone against a hundred people who want to kill you, to blow up a ship so that another guy can make more profit. Also known as NO COMFORT AT ALL!
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