Chapter 72

Later, Kain went to the old woman's family tent. He needed to have another discussion about what he had bought into.

An agreeable, forgiving lifestyle might be somewhere in his future, but that somewhere certainly isn't here and now. Confusion was in charge, and he was compelled to dance to its tune whether he wanted it or not, though Kain still got to decide a step here and there. He had a little moment before the feast, and he needed to deliver a few messages, which he dictated to Almera.

The old woman busied herself with basket-making while Almera and he labored away. Finn was sent off to look for suggestions down at the wharves. Kain hoped he might stumble across something we could build while he was poking around. It took him a while to clarify to him that he was paying for him to go out and just be interested in anything he came across that looked intriguing.

And after depleting his meager understanding of the builder's exchange, Kain got down to composing the messa