[Video | 002: Trade Negotiations]

[pepperspray]

[It certainly hasn't taken Pepper long to both find a desk and have it covered (neatly!) with papers. Although the backdrop is the overburdened hospital, and although her hair is back in the sort of no-nonsense ponytail that says there's been no time to properly wash it, she looks much more in her element: grave, precise and direct as she looks to the camera.]

The supply situation at the hospital is getting critical. We've managed to stretch things a few more days, but normal resupply rates won't keep pace with the demand in the wake of the fire. There's a settlement to the south of here where some trade has been conducted before.

Is anyone interested in a trade mission? Do you have any useful skills you can bring to bear for one? Travel is dangerous here, I've been told, so bodyguards as well as negotiators could have a role. You'll also need to be able to work with the local population -- this is a show they've been running a lot longer than we've been here.

Comments

[femshep]

'Miss' works fine. With all she's studied human culture, she'll take it as a term of respect either way. [On the one hand, asari are genderless, so 'miss' technically isn't correct. On the other hand, Liara's responded just fine to 'Miss T'Soni' in the past, so why complicate things for the 21st century folks?]

[pepperspray]

Thank you Co-- Shepard.

[Pepper shakes her head slightly at catching herself.]

I'll do my best to see that she gets ample opportunities for anthropology.

[femshep]

[Her lips curl just barely, the faint beginnings of a smile.]

Appreciated.

And good luck.