Duty (World of the Young Ancients Book 1) by P.S. Power

Author:P.S. Power [Power, P.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orange Cat Publishing
Published: 2019-04-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter seven

Apparently, Sam Builder was moving fast that day. According to him, anyway. They were in Printer with the Countess not six hours later, having already secured deals in County Cannor and County Ward. The same deal in each place, which he explained to the tall woman that sat across the table from him and Sam.

“Basically, we provide a chance for people to rent handhelds, and put in to public use communications magics for free.” He paused for a moment, the woman, who was forceful in her speech, rarely letting him get more than a sentence out without interjecting, did it again.

It was a bit frustrating, since Albert knew that he could have covered the whole thing in a few minutes if she’d just let him do it.

The Countess gave him a serious look then.

“What do you expect in return for this project? I suppose I could pay a bit… Call it ten thousand gold, annually?” She held her breath, as if she understood that she was asking him to provide millions of golds worth of devices for what had to seem like nothing, to her.

Albert shook his head then, smiling gently. At least that was what he was going for. He had no clue what his face actually looked like. Probably a bit stern, given how people tended to respond to him, most days.

“That shouldn’t be needed at all, if all goes well. From you, if you’re in with us, we’d like some tax relief. So that we can use the funds we bring in for emergency relief programs. The workers will be paid, of course, in the coin of the realm they are working in. So, silver and gold here. Um…” He shrugged, and powered forward, since both Ward and Cannor had been amenable to the basic idea when he’d brought it up before.

“If you have people that are behind on taxes, say… About to lose their home or farm? We could ask if they want to help us, at the start. Then you just forgive that tax debt or rent in arrears and they might make enough to pay you next time. It isn’t certain and you could lose out, if the project doesn’t work, long term. Still…” He didn't really know what to add then.

The Countess did, smiling herself. It didn’t look real, totally.

“Still, indeed. Taxes aren’t coin. Land rent almost never gets paid off, if we have to remove people from their homes. If it does, it could take years. So that won’t really cause a great loss of revenue for me. I just pull the rolls and give you their names?” She seemed slightly sly then. “I have that here, of course. There’s a family in the city here in fact, that has been mentioned to me that way by Admiral Orange of Space Fleet. Tolland, I think the name was? There was hinting that I shouldn’t kick them out of their home, without a willingness to explain why that was.”

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