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Voyna: Welcome Phile, thank you for coming
Phile: hello
Phile: You say you help?
Voyna: We will try
Phile: try is good, I thank!
murtha: we thought you might need a bit of relaxation after your ordeal
Voyna: For now perhpas you will relax a bit with us, enjoy some wine if you like.
murtha: please help yourself to wine
murtha: the peoples of egypt are experts at wine
Phile: oooh
Phile: you are very good!
Phile: But I think you label wrong?
Voyna: Thank You
Phile: Is banana, not peach!
Voyna: labels are a bit difficult
murtha winks our scribes maybe not so good:)
Phile: ah, book-pushers!
Voyna: Is this your first visit to Egypt?
Phile: no, I come here before
Voyna: Long ago?
Phile: I never go this far or stay this long
murtha: can we do anything for you at all? maybe help you get in contact with akki's parents so they can come?
Phile: Akki's parents not come, how can they?
murtha: i don't understand
Phile: not easy travel
Phile: long time, dangerous
Voyna: Ah, difficult journey.
Phile: he parents must work to live
murtha: so you are close to them?
Voyna: They came to your wedding?
Phile: I not meet them much
Phile: of course they come to wedding!
Phile: Both family at wedding, big event
Phile sniffs
Voyna: It must have been beautiful
murtha: good memeories phile
murtha: try to hang on to the good memories
Phile: Greek weddings are very beautiful
murtha: then tell us please how you met akki?
Phile: I do, I will not forget
Phile: how we met?
Phile: Akki had just bought first ship
murtha: yes how you met and fell in love
Phile: My parents own farm...
Phile: how you call them...
Phile: make oil...
Phile: very good oil
Voyna: olives?
Phile: Olives?
Phile: yes, I think that right
Phile: Akki turn up at door for father
Phile: he say he have work idea for father
Phile: father out in field, mother go to find, I take Akki to sit and wait
Phile: we talk
Phile: we talk lots, until father come
Voyna: love at first sight? what was Akki full name?
Phile: Akki makes father deal, he take oil to far off places
Phile: Akakios
Voyna: pretty
Phile: Very nice name
Phile: It fit him well
Voyna: Where did your father sell Oil before that?
Phile: he sell only in Crete
Phile: but he doing very well
Phile: he take good care of olives and oil, very well...
Phile: liked? no not liked
Phile: people think good of him
Voyna: So you came with Akki to Egypt before? honeymoon?
Phile: I not know Egypt word
Phile: no, for honeymoon we go to Greek islands
Voyna: respected
Phile: respected? thank you, I try remember that one
Phile: always nice to learn
Phile: spend a week on the islands
Voyna: Very luck you marry well :D
murtha: did you go on his new ship?
Phile: Yes
murtha: an ocean journey sounds very nice
Phile: I come with him
Phile: he go many places
Phile: and he take father Oil to many cities
Voyna: That is how you camr to Egypt before?
Phile: Yes
Phile: I am assistant
Phile: He trade in...
Voyna: You keep records for him?
Phile: much money goods?
murtha: he must of worked very hard to come with the kind of money it takes to buy a ship
Phile: I keep records of... secret things?
Phile: Yes, he work very hard and he very respected! Is good word for Akakios!
Voyna: oh my, secret things, could explain troubles
murtha: my very thoughts
Phile: how you mean?
Phile: Nikomedes has many things at palace
Voyna: Secrets, often the cause of trouble.
Phile: why he need my Akki things?
Voyna: Niko palace? in Greece?
Phile: no, here
Phile: he with playboy Sami in palace
Phile giggles
murtha: phile are you saying niko got akki's business?
Phile: playboy... Korrin teach me that
Phile: I...
Phile: I think Niko knew Akki business, many did
Phile: he carry many secret and much money things for many people
murtha: akki did?
Phile: He very respected, so they use him
Voyna: What sort of busines, besides the Oil?
Phile: yes
Phile: We trade many things
Phile: depend on where we go and where we from
Phile: Crete and Greece we take Oil, bring wood
Phile: Also take clay things
Voyna: Akki got more ships after the first one?
Phile: no
Phile: We were to
Phile: but we need find more business
murtha: those secret things intrigue me
murtha: since it is just us girls here, can you give us a small hint?
Phile giggles and points at Robare
Phile: very odd girl!
murtha: he's not here
Voyna: well one must have butler :D
Phile: hehe
murtha: his eardrums were burst by an angry farmer many years ago
Phile: hehe
Phile: Secrets... I not speak of items, but I tell you style
murtha: he only understands in gestures and signs
Phile: we take gold, we take letters
Phile: we find odd items
Phile: I find many flower we sell to far place noble
Voyna: letters between nobels?
Phile: between nobles and more
murtha: not to offend phile but it almost sounds like there might have been some things that were not exactly legal? that could have gotten akki into trouble
Phile: I not know, we not ask. Akki trusted by many
Phile: many high people ask him to carry
Voyna: Could he have had letters on him that night?
Phile: no
Phile: I know he had no letter
Voyna: If you still have letters you mght be in danger ...
murtha: i'm troubled by one thing phile. do you feel up to answering some maybe hard questions so i can understand?
Phile: I not have letters
Phile: we not carry secret on this
Phile: I can try answer Murtha
murtha: were you carrying letters recently?
Phile: yes
Phile: But not in Egypt or Greece
Phile: not say countries, no-one know
Voyna: Perhaps someone here expected a letter (or gold) and di not get it
Phile: only person sending knew we had
Phile: letter was delivered by my Akki by self
murtha: the one thing that is troubling me most is this. you said you were off the beaten path, yet somehow niko knew where you were. How is that?
Phile: Niko not know where I was
Phile: Akki was on work
Phile: I was look for herbs and flower
Voyna: But he knew where Akki was ...
Phile: over sea herbs sell well
Phile: yes
Phile: I not know why
murtha: he knew where akki and you were close if you heard them
Phile: I hear, but in rock
Voyna: Maybe Nik wanted to send letter?
Phile: who that?
Phile: I not know, that not my job
murtha: what reason would nicko have for wanting akki dead? he must have had some motive?
Phile: If he want to send letter, why he kill Akki? Letter go very slow!
Phile: I only think of time we see Niko before
Phile: I tell Korrin of it
Voyna: Who will get Akki business now?
Phile: No-one
Phile: it is over
Phile: crew run off
Phile: they not leave much, I not carry much
Voyna: Wll perhaps the oilpart, but someone will carry the letters
Phile: I not know
Phile: Nobles and like much find new person to trust
Voyna: Did Akki have close friends that he might have worked with?
Phile: he always work
Phile: we not stay in one town long
Phile: crew was not old
Phile: many Greek save up buy own ship
Phile: not all like travel
Voyna: You get new crew often?
Phile: many fish at home
Phile: people come, people go
Phile: we loose person every year, maybe 2
murtha: you must be a saint. i cant think of many whose curiousity would ot impell them to peek at the letters to see
murtha: *not
Phile: is business and pay well
Phile: we not want to stop business
Phile: it take many time to get
Voyna: Still must have been hard not to look, just a little
murtha: phile i just had a thought
murtha: where are your secret records now?
Phile: are burnt
Phile: all gone
murtha: ah good i would hate to think of you in danger because of those secrets
Voyna: You did that?
Phile: yes
Phile: we agree
Phile: not let secrets out
murtha: still someone must of thought you knew more than you did
Voyna: That was very wise of you. It will protect you, but might make killer harder to prove.
Phile: not think so
Voyna: Your parents make oil, what do Akki's parents do?
Phile: We not in Greece or Egypt for 2 year
Phile: Last time here old Pharoah
Phile: Akki parent fish
Phile: he learned boat from them
Voyna: You meet the old pharoah? Carry letter for him?
Phile: No
murtha: have akki's or your parents ever been to egypt?
Phile: we never carry secret for Egypt
Phile: no, is long journey, much money
Phile: my parent must care for olives
Voyna: Did Akki have brothers?
Phile: Akki parent must work much
Phile: no
Phile: we both only
murtha: still phile. you must think hard. why would anyone want akki dead if he was so trusted?
murtha: who would benefit from that?
Phile: Korrin tell you of party?
murtha: no i have not heard of that
Phile: We in Greece at noble house
Phile: Noble we know well, I bring many flowers for wife
murtha: go onb
Phile: I look in garden, see flowers and plants
Phile: I see Niko with wife of Noble
Phile: they sit on bench with back to me
Phile: Niko speak softly, not hear word
Voyna: They sit very close?
Phile: then she stand up suddenly and look not happy
Phile: they sit close to talk
Phile: she very unhappy
Phile: she run inside, hear shouts
Phile: Akki come out the door, he see Niko, he see me
Phile: Akki not look happy
Phile: we go fast
Phile: He say we never to speak of Niko
Voyna: He knew Niko's name? Recognized him from some past time?
Phile: I not think so
murtha: sounds like he might of known something
Phile: From what he say, he say not much
Phile: but Noble not happy at Niko
murtha: why would he want not to speak of niko
Voyna: Was Akki like that? He keep secrets from you?
Phile: Say bad for business if we speak of Niko
Phile: No
Phile: he say all
Phile: I keep record of all his secret good
Voyna: Was Nik name in those records?
Phile: He trust me with much
murtha: then even though it's burnt you stil know of it
Phile: No
Phile: No Niko
Phile: he never noble
Phile: he vulgar
Phile: I know some of record
Phile: I try think of Niko name
Phile: but nothing
murtha: why wouldn't akki tell you about niko if he shared all with you
Phile: I not know
Phile: he say Niko say wrong
Phile: Noble very angry
Phile: be bad for work if we know Niko
Phile: Niko not popular
murtha: didn't niko claim to be a noble?
Phile: He Noble?!
Phile: He study book
Voyna: Niko does bad things? In Greece? Like?
Phile: He known for bad manners
Phile: offend many people
Phile: offending many people not good for you
murtha: yet he and sami great friends?
Phile: Sami in Greece many year he say with book
Phile: Sami not seem very smart
Phile: maybe he should go back!
Voyna: Which book is this you keep mentioning?
Phile: he study them
Phile: in place
Phile: lots of people study book
Voyna: One Book?
murtha: in a library?
Phile: nono
Phile: many book
Phile: I not know Egypt word
Phile: many people all study book
Phile: do odd thing
murtha: a school maybe?
Phile: what is school?
murtha: where people go to study all together
Voyna: They all study the same book? or many different books?
Phile: yes, like school then
Phile: many book
Phile: lot of write
murtha: a room with many books is called a library phile
Voyna: So Sami and Niko were there at same time? Did Akki go there?
Phile: thankyou Murtha :)
Phile: No, Akki learn from village
Phile: he never go to place
Voyna: Did you?
Phile: no
murtha: okay phile, you've given us much to ponder on. we will think and meet again if you will agree?
Phile: Yes, I try
Phile: but must keep moving
Phile: I sure people follow
Voyna: Thak you for coming
Phile: I think you
Phile: thank*
Phile: and thank for wine, even if scribe write wrong!
murtha: we will get word to you thru orrin. he is a trusted messanger
Phile: He good friend, help organise Wake
Phile: goodbye!
Voyna: Yes, we will see yo at the wake, help you honor Akki

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