Free. I'd held up every freaking deal other than to never return to Achaea unless summoned. Other than beasts, monsters, weather, famine, plague, natural disasters and of course, humanity, I was again without a care.
Hm?
Oh, no. I don't think about these things as humans do. I was willing to carry the household in Inventory while indentured, but certainly not to the next town. <1>
No, my System doesn't work that way, and didn't back then. I just hadn't linked to it exactly when it stopped awarding me as many development points. This is still about five months to the Conjunction, when all the Systems... but I'm getting ahead of myself.
I headed north through the wooded foothills separating the Furdish nation from the hobgoblins. Not the religious ones, the Marble Hand or whatever.... Yes, yes, I mean the Marble Fist.
Oh? Their king is orcish now? Good for him.
