Several Remit People adorned with pearls and gemstones, obviously of the Gold Sequence, were entering and leaving, evidently owning the property.
Byron had seen business opportunities from the New Continent and new trade routes, establishing a transit service station in the Great Bear Archipelago, and these keen-nosed fellows naturally could as well.
It was just that one group was doing business for those arriving, and the other for those on the return journey.
But do these people really not fear death for the sake of money? Or has the anomaly on this island been resolved by the Pirate King?
After Byron subdued the Goddess Freya, he had already learned a bit about the island.
All descendants of the Deep Sea Kin knew that their ancestors had experienced a "collective ascension" at Fortress Bridgehead, which allowed them to transform into a Kin serving the Slumbering God.
But few knew that although they were both called "ascension" rituals, their natures were starkly different.
