NPC ReEvolution by Rae Nantes

Author:Rae Nantes [Nantes, Rae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-19T22:00:00+00:00

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Willow was standing at the stove, guarding her sizzling steaks against Yun and I as we both sat at the table. The smell was wafting over and making us both salivate like dogs, our stomachs whining and complaining while we maintained our sanity over a kettle of tea.

"Yun," I said. "Where are you going to next?"

"Braltar. Sits right at the exit of the sea to the ocean." He sipped his tea as a proper lady would. "I'm gonna see what goes in an' out, trade-wise."

I was wrong. Perhaps there were some here who were good at this sort. "You're making orders?"

"Yep. Mostly I'm puttin' our name out there. Lettin' people know there's a tradin' post right here, so they don't just sail by without sayin' hello." His sharp eyes traced the edges of his cup. "We'll be havin' a lot of throughput in trade, so we ought to consider puttin' another post at the strait. Since we're workin' under a shell company, an' all."

It was a good idea, but one that would need to wait. Not only was that area poor for resources, but it was also mostly just glass and craters. For now, we needed to focus on manpower. "We should get employees, I think."

"Is that a good idea?" he asked. "They'd have to live nearby, and I doubt people would move out so far to this empty place just for a job."

"What about people who would want to move? Surely there's somebody who's trying to escape their boring lives." I waved my arm beside me. "This is the land of opportunity here! Let's bring in some immigrants or something."

He nodded. "Yeah, alright, but once word gets out that we are here, someone's gonna cry to their auntie back home an' the next thing we know bounty hunters will find us."

I sighed. "Then we'll just have to be separate from them, and when we can't be, we'll need to be careful." My mind raced for a solution, stopping only when a plate tapped the table in front of me. Food! "Thanks," I told Willow. She smiled in return and joined us at the table.

"Why don't I just send word through my network," she said. "We'll let people know about us, invite them here, and maybe we can have our own little settlement, maybe a cute little town."

Yun shook his head. "Still the problem of them findin' us out." He looked at me. "Keep 'em away from us. If they wanna live here, they ought to live on the sea."

"A port town," I echoed as my eyes drifted along my plate. "That's perfect for a merchant republic." I nodded at them both. "Let's do it."

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