After handling the matter of the Official Extraordinary, Hobart mentioned that he had a batch of Arbiter-pathway Extraordinary Characteristics he wanted to sell. If the Tudor Family was interested, they could send someone to discuss it.
Once they had finished discussing business, Hobart returned to the Study to teach Freya vocabulary. However, he found that Freya's pronunciation was not very standard either, so he started again with the alphabet and corrected her pronunciation.
Since they were learning Ruen Language first, and it was Freya's native language, only slight corrections to her pronunciation were needed.
Hobart also assigned her ten relatively simple words, telling her to copy each at least fifty times and read each fifty times.
Freya had originally wanted to find a patch of soft earth and practice the words on the ground.
Hobart rejected that idea. "Practice on paper! Once you're done, you can see whether you've improved."
That was enough for the first day. Hobart had Freya practice by herself in the Study, then returned to his room. He had originally intended to take out gold from the Country of Disorder and go find Aputon.
However, he discovered that gold worth 36,000 pounds was far too heavy, so he only took out a complete Bribor Extraordinary Characteristic through Bestowal.
Then he changed into Loen-style clothing, put on a mask, and used travel to arrive at Aputon's office in Connat City.
Aputon hurriedly rose to his feet. "Attendant of God."
Although he knew that the person before him was the "traitor" Hobart, he had little sense of identification with the Loen Kingdom. Whether Hobart had betrayed the country or not made no difference to him.
Hobart took out a small wooden box. "This is your payment, a complete Bribor Extraordinary Characteristic."
Aputon voiced his thanks and accepted it