Tanager's Flight: Chapter 5

The continuing adventures of the trader and her crew

 Next Morning

The factotum arrived at the Tanager promptly at the beginning of the business day on Altressa, just as Jem had anticipated. He had not, of course, been given anything so tawdry as a time or appointment booking. Simply to expect a person. And in spite of that lack of anything so nice as a description, much less a name, when the Dame Milton’s…