Trigger Warning: Dunno if drug use is a trigger for some, but it's here, and will be a part of several chaps moving forward.
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Hesso nodded. "That better not change or I… don't know what I will do."
Silence passed by.
"He wouldn't dare, right?" Surut mumbled. "A lot of my elders were supporters of the previous Lord and they had been dissatisfied with how Lord Mafo had been handling things."
There was little sense of loyalty among the nobles here, of course, but what they did see was money and benefits.
Under Mafo's reign, a lot of that had grown stagnant, and they naturally didn't like it.
"Naive!" The acne-filled Langot added with a sneer. As the son of a merchant and someone actively helping his father, he was exposed to a few more things. "If I were you, I would start building up my power in case there's a conflict."
