Chapter 78: Eighth Floor
| Proposed Contract: Tulland Lowstreet promises nonaggression against anyone who has not moved in a malicious way towards him and who has bought food from him, permanently. On the accepting side, there are no obligations outside of the fact that Tulland will be informed if they intend harm towards Tulland. This offer will be enforced by The Infinite with severe penalties should Tulland break it.
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“Dumb.” In a few minutes, when everyone else was done trading and had disbursed, Necia let her anger show. “You gave them a lot there, and for what?”
“For the future, I think.” White walked from an alley near them. “I was just coming to say goodbye and stayed for the show. It wasn’t a bad one.”
“And what does he gain from that?” Necia motioned to the table, which was full of garbage from people’s pockets and perhaps four seeds. “This isn’t much.”
“Not much for now. But that rubbish is just what people had in their pockets. From now on, they’ll be looking for every single thing Tulland could possibly use. All they needed was trust. And he gave them that,” White said.
