Hashing out the details of the new deal was more complicated than Valerie had expected. With her dealings with Brownies such as Sebbie and Amodites, the rule abiding demons, she felt that she was quite adept at unravelling tricky wording or crafting her own carefully worded statements.
But the conversation between Mister Bloom and the Dryad was on an entirely different level.
They were getting everything down to the smallest minute detail possible, and were having a fencing match of sharp wit and silver tongues. Creating loopholes of their own and closing up the others loopholes, each one becoming more obscure and hidden with every layer of detail or rewriting of the agreement.
Sometimes in their rewrites, only a few or a single word was changed. But that was enough to change the entire meaning of certain portions, at least in their eyes, so that it was no longer favourable for them.
