Ante's upped; Bounties announced.
In the aftermath of Meetinghouse conflagrations and Council elections, of the abolishment of Straka and the rise of Janeiro, one might be forgiven for thinking that certain unpleasant matters had actually gone forgotten. Perhaps this is what they mutter to each other in the fields, these Kaczmareks and Aberdeens and O'Cynens; perhaps they mourn the fact over their evening meals, these D'Ivries and Bucols, and even the poor grieving Fletchers.
No longer. Come nightfall, the work is done: there are such notices as these are nailed to shopfronts and to tavern walls, to lantern-posts and to the sides of fallen carts. Word spreads swiftly, because coin's been paid to gossips and bartenders ensure precisely just that, and besides...
The mentioned sum is vast.
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No longer. Come nightfall, the work is done: there are such notices as these are nailed to shopfronts and to tavern walls, to lantern-posts and to the sides of fallen carts. Word spreads swiftly, because coin's been paid to gossips and bartenders ensure precisely just that, and besides...
The mentioned sum is vast.
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