Chapter 453: Those who left
As Gumiduo's Camel Beast caravan crossed the damp grass and disappeared from sight, Pipi called on the members of his merchant group to pack up the things inside the tent.
The pot had been scraped clean enough, but it still needed washing.
An Akeniksen reached a hand outside the tent, and patches of rainwater on the sodden grassland immediately gathered toward it.
With the help of a few cleaning implements, the pot was easily scrubbed clean, and the stove was doused as well.
The enormous tent was slowly dismantled by more than thirty Akeniksen working together.
Unlike their hurried efforts to escape the rain earlier, they were in no rush now, so the process took longer.
Several Camel Beasts stepped out of the tent and helped with their feet and mouths, pulling out the frame and folding and flattening the canvas.
Across the grassland before them, only the grass beneath the tent was dry.
Among these members of the Dawn Merchant Group, quite a few women were feeling rather downcast. They dearly wished Pipi's string of crystals had been a gift for them.
Their leader had probably only meant to help the Dawn Merchant Group open up new trade routes, and although he was clever, he could be rather oblivious in certain matters and had failed to notice anything.
But their keen instincts told them that the great merchant Gumiduo had very likely fallen for their leader.
Still, thinking it over brought them some relief. Perhaps Gumiduo was just barely worthy of an Akeniksen like their leader.
Judging by Gumiduo's earlier behavior, this aloof beauty of the Akeniksen merchant world was not as hopeless as many of its old merchants.
The following night, somewhere in the mountains of northern Margeson, a mirror inside a