Chapter 204 - We’re Leaving
After returning to Fort Hope, Ashton, Carson, and the rest of their City's leadership broke off to resettle the crowd and the people they brought back.
Our talks weren't set to begin right away and they needed time to reorganize their City after what happened.
I was in no rush, mostly because I was not looking forward to round two of diplomacy, and also because I had other things to do anyway.
Other than looking for a Glassblower, I had other tasks to complete in the City now that the threat was dealt with. Most of the supplies sent with us needed to be sold or traded.
Abigail packed away anything our City could spare as exports so we could have some buying power in case we saw anything this City had that we didn't.
I also had most of our treasury on me for that exact purpose.
Trade and market research were my goals and I wasn't the only one out scouting the trading hub. Most of our 200-man group were doing the same. Those that could walk anyway. Most for their own purposes of buying whatever caught their fancy, but most just wanted to explore the new city as we didn't have a chance when we arrived.
There were things I noted down to buy but nothing huge stuck out as I strolled through the stalls. From my first visit it seemed the City's Leadership kept a tighter leash on things being bought and sold, which filtered the good stuff out.
Still, I did pick up on things worth buying. The wooded area around their camp was of a higher grade than ours, leading to better logs and planks after it was processed. With the Lake nearby, they had another food source that we didn't.
Most of the fish for sale looked like what the world had before, but I wouldn't be sure until I tried it.
It had been a while since I had a good fish fry.
Other than pulling fish out of the lake, there was other aquatic vegetation for sale but I didn't know what it was for. It didn't look like kale or seaweed, and I certainly wouldn't be putting it in my mouth, but it was marketed all the same.