"What is 'likely' does not make it automatically true." She says, unfazed by the moron storming in with his ale. "And Since this meeting is MY meeting, in a private room under the laws of this..." she curled her lip to speak the next word with disdain "Kingdom... then I'm afraid I have full rights to dictate. This is a huge payday, I'm not going to be undercut by some rank amateur. And as to the point, I'm not GIVING any task... I'm just being paid to see it done. No more, no less. If, for example... I feel that the only way to see the tasks done is to ensure the information given never leaves this room, then so be it." She offers her most innocently dangerous smile "And perhaps<em>I</em>was testing<em>her</em>mettle, as is my right as the leader of this little venture?" She turns, addressing the room at large.<br/><br/>"I presume you're all at least smart enough to understand there's more to this than meets the eye? You can obviously read, though that doesn't necessarily mean much... Though I can assure you, I won't be forthcoming with any information not poignant to the job at hand. I don't know the whole story myself, so I assure you I'm not withholding for the laughs. Though I can say one thing with certainty... the trinket isn't quite worthless... but to any of us, worthless is what it is. If you think you can take the trinket to turn a quick profit, I assure you it would barely sell for the worth of some bread... and you'll have a group of pissed off sellswords behind you that you just took their payday from. And finally, without me, there is no payday. Just not going to happen." She glanced around, her ears twitching. "Ano'da reth ta'marr."