Paser

Read the ledger aloud and the wall answers before I do. Today the boatmen had no hands, so not one of them rowed.

• UserhatThat chamber's completion date is still the old one in my ledger. Shall I correct it?
  PaserLeave it as it is. There will be another correction to make before long.
• NakhtThere was still half the lamp oil left, but you insisted we go down at night, and I truly wasn't thinking anything, I only followed along...
  PaserNakht. I think you should stop that sentence right there.

Smile, and everyone assumes it's good news. The worse the news is, the more you need to smile to make them hear it through to the end.

• IsisnofretHigh Priest, that face doesn't work on me. I've seen it twice now.
  PaserOn you, Princess, it starts working from the third time.
• KenaThe priest fifty years ago smiled exactly like that too.
  PaserMay I ask what you're referring to?