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Tuomo took a sip from his whiskey and stared at clean, nice dollar bills on his hand. This money was more than welcome for a retired fisherman, but he knew it would mean trouble when Tapani was knocking on his door. The boat engine was singing its song under their feet, and random waves splashed against the boat's bow. Small vibration from the damaged propeller made the boat vibrate, but not too much. At least now Tuomo could buy a new propeller. 

"You know Tapani, how proud your father would be?" He asked with a lot of irony in his speech. 

"I know," Tapani answered. His father wanted to see him as a normal hardworking man who does normal small jobs. It was already subject for argumentation when Tapani entered university and studied engineering. 

"I understand your choices better," Tuomo said. When Tapani graduated, there was a bad depression, and many young men joined mercenary troops. But that was not his case. Tapani got the job, but mercenary troops discovered him, and he discovered them while he was working on some places that gods had abandoned. "It is young blood and feeling of adventure." Tuomo had made a few trips on his younghood, but after establishing family, he has been fishing and driving trucks. 

"But you were supposed to grow, forget that shit and be normal, man," He continued, "What you are now? You have your boat and crew with more weapons than the army of the average city Kingdom."

"Does it make me king?" Tapani asked. 

"You are fucking Viking captain; you still serve your kings and earls," Tuomo laughed. "Now, you seem to be serving the old king of Storhem."

"Well," Tapani started, but Tuomo interrupted him. 

"Your father didn't like the idea of slavery," Tuomo said, "and now you have four slaves with you."

"I'm only transporting them," Tapani answered. "Export papers are good and legalized."

"Did you read those papers?" Tuomo smirked. "If you did, you were marked as owner."

"Well, this is the first time I own another human." Tapani started. 

"No, in practice, they are no more humans, and they don't have human rights." Tuomo corrected him. "You are now responsible for them." Tuomo took a long sip of whiskey and laughed, "It is not only just some enslaved group of girls. These are fucking princesses of Ahstad."

Tapani was in a hurry because all media was saturated with the strategy that happened in a small city-state. The news was telling how the king and queen had committed suicide. An unfortunate event occurred just on the edge of the marriage of their oldest daughter. Later news told that also princesses were discovered dead after jumping from the castle wall.