"Sean fought a noble over a treasure at the Auction House, so the noble sent The Faction to assassinate Sean and take it back..."
Compared with The Mage Tower's Fall, Soluman Copperbeard preferred Law Breaks the Sky and was always urging Annan to make a second Magic Film. "That's a scene from Law Breaks the Sky!"
She loudly insisted that the mage named Murat was the hero.
"This is trouble. You shouldn't be so happy," Ingrid said.
Star-Moon Bay couldn't help. Annan could only turn to Olmedo.
"You sent five thousand Gold Narls without even assigning an escort?"
Olmedo didn't know whether to call Annan too trusting or careless with money. Annan's reasoning was that Betar City belonged to the Diatra family. Sending The Faction to escort him would be like telling Gema, "I'm coming to your territory to do something."
"As City Lord and a representative of the Mage Tower, I'll ask Betar City to help."
After their conversation, Annan stepped out of the house. Star-Moon Bay had a milestone of its own today: the last group of Subjects was moving into New Town.
More than a dozen Mansions had risen in twenty days, enough to house all the remaining Subjects. The workers enthusiastically tore down the camp where they had lived for nearly three months.
"After almost three months here, I've grown attached to the place..."
Krian said this while tearing it down faster than anyone else. The camp soon became a lumberyard. Annan would pay the wood humanity's highest respect: none of it would go to waste.
Following the Northern Frontier's custom of drinking a bowl of hot soup after working outside in winter, Krian and the other trainee guards warmed themselves, put their standard-issue coats back on, and formed ranks to patrol and train along the