"Your Highness, so many people have been holding cremations in White Sheep Town lately that our timber supplies are running short! And quite a few smugglers have started bringing corpses from all over the Seven Kingdoms here for cremation, just to cheat us out of that one silver stag reward."
Samwell complained to Danyla, looking thoroughly disgruntled.
"Your Highness, you have no idea-on our most expensive day recently, we paid out three gold dragons in cremation rewards!"
"I suspect those smugglers have brought in every corpse in the Seven Kingdoms. Quite a few were clearly dug out of their graves and tidied up again!"
"By the Seven! These people will abandon every last shred of decency for money."
After listening to Samwell's complaints, Danyla turned to Cameron and asked,
"There should be quite a few former priests among the slaves we bought from Slaver's Bay this time, shouldn't there?"
"Indeed, Your Highness."
"But Ser Samwell has already assigned them all to help at the school in White Sheep Town!"
"Yes, Your Highness!"
At the mention of this, Samwell immediately perked up.
"As you instructed, the scholars are busy compiling a structured curriculum and textbooks. So I temporarily assigned the literate priests to the school to teach the children of White Sheep Town to read."
"Of course, all several thousand craftsmen have also been assigned to the various workshops in White Sheep Town!"
"Since construction of the Fighting Arena is essentially finished, I assigned all the workers there to hurry along construction of the docks on Holy Flame Island."
"With these craftsmen joining us, our construction has become much faster. But we've completely exhausted our stock of dragonstone."
Danyla really had not expected that the more capable people she had working under her, the less time she would have.
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