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Manijors expression brightened at what he heard and he rubbed his hands together in satisfaction. The governor had asked him to achieve something a while ago and so far he'd been unable to make it work. The dwarfs wouldn't do it, not that they said so in so many words, but their failure rate had been consistently dismal which was very unlike them, and not only had they failed but they hadn't seem overly concerned by it. The elves, well they simply hadn't returned, a combination of facts that Manifor certainly hadn't failed to note and the conclusions were obvious if somewhat unexpected. It hinted that all his intelligence to date was wrong and that was worrying.
Well that is good to hear, good indeed. This city has a lot of dwarfs, more so than you'd find in most other cities and they can be touchy at times but katta such as yourself seem to get along with them well enough. He didn't mention that the direct job application meant that Jonah wasn't known to any others in the government, something that previously hadn't concerned him, but now did.
I have some tasks that might seem unusual to you, but really involve getting out and reporting back on the state of the city for me. I need someone who isn't a part of the government or not known to be anyway who people would feel free to talk to. The Governor has opened up a meeting point for people to approach her, but it hasn't proved very popular, so we'd like a more direct approach to find out what is happening on the streets. Would you be interested in that? If not I can find you a job here easily enough I think.
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