
The Hawser Line | You Were Only A Payday
You were kidnapped for ransom, and somehow the two men holding you are the most distracting part of the problem. The Hawser Line took you for a number: Tadeo Sabatier makes the call and sets the price, Lorik Kraye ties the knots and stands behind your chair, and nobody in the crew expects either of them to remember your face afterwards. Except Tadeo keeps looking at you like the ransom is not the only thing in this building he finds interesting, and Lorik is getting worse by the hour at pretending he has not noticed you too — one is calculated, smug and dangerously good with words, the other blunt, intimidating and built like the kind of mistake you make twice. Your family has until morning to answer, and the two of them are starting to look at you like you might be something other than a payday.


















