"Set the standard?" Amanda scratched her head, then her eyebrows shot up. "Ahh! You try to make your place the one everyone else strives to match, eh? Drive out the competition by making sure they have to struggle to keep up with you. I bet the champagne helps, too. Got to add the little frilly touches. Like them fancy restaurants with the parsley on the plates. Doesn't matter if you eat it, long as it looks tasty, right?" She nudged Phoebe with her elbow, winking at her.
She rubbed her chin, considering the various angles of it all. Definitely sounded like you needed to be an expert in your field to make it work. She could respect that--a business was a business, and you couldn't be sloppy about it if you wanted to do good work.
"Okay," she said, nodding, "greatest carpenter with the best tools...you've told me about the tools, what about the people? Other than being clean and treated nice..." She waved her hand dismissively at those trivialities. "...how do you get a good quality hooker? Do you hold interviews? If I were a carpenter, I wouldn't hire someone new without seeing how good they were with the tools. You like, make the girls give a trial fuck before they can sign up?"
This was certainly proving educational, but she still didn't get why Frey had sent her here. What did the god get out of it by having her learn how brothels worked? Learning this stuff was the service Amanda had to perform to get the goods she wanted, but usually, you had someone perform a service because it benefited you in some way. How did teaching Amanda about brothels benefit Frey in any way?
"Why do you think Frey sent me here?" she asked distractedly. Phoebe certainly knew more about the sex god than she did. Maybe she would have some answers.
She rubbed her chin, considering the various angles of it all. Definitely sounded like you needed to be an expert in your field to make it work. She could respect that--a business was a business, and you couldn't be sloppy about it if you wanted to do good work.
"Okay," she said, nodding, "greatest carpenter with the best tools...you've told me about the tools, what about the people? Other than being clean and treated nice..." She waved her hand dismissively at those trivialities. "...how do you get a good quality hooker? Do you hold interviews? If I were a carpenter, I wouldn't hire someone new without seeing how good they were with the tools. You like, make the girls give a trial fuck before they can sign up?"
This was certainly proving educational, but she still didn't get why Frey had sent her here. What did the god get out of it by having her learn how brothels worked? Learning this stuff was the service Amanda had to perform to get the goods she wanted, but usually, you had someone perform a service because it benefited you in some way. How did teaching Amanda about brothels benefit Frey in any way?
"Why do you think Frey sent me here?" she asked distractedly. Phoebe certainly knew more about the sex god than she did. Maybe she would have some answers.
