Chapter 34: Buyer’s Remorse
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The next morning.
The townspeople had learned their lesson and showed up early to claim their spots at the manor gate.
The earliest birds had staked out their places before sunrise.
If the guards hadn’t forced them to scatter yesterday, some folks would’ve been planning to camp out in front of the manor gate all night.
Kralfard looked at these faces—hungry as a pack of wolves—then quietly glanced back at his lord Thane and sighed to himself.
He sure hoped the lord had something up his sleeve.
Thane smiled and stepped forward slowly.
"I’m mighty pleased that over the past month, everyone here has worked their tails off, which has really improved my opinion of you all."
Thane’s gaze swept over the crowd as he spoke casually. "So, to reward everyone, I kept my promise early this month and let you trade work points for goods."
"That’s something worth celebrating, but it’s not enough, so I’ve decided to give you more things to trade for."