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BENJAMIN
A stack of papers drops onto my desk with a heavy thud, making my
inkwell rattle. I look up at the hunter in front of me, unimpressed.
“The paperwork you requested,” Atticus says dryly. “All thirtyseven pages of it.”
I push the disheveled pile to the side, looking back down at my ledger.
“Did you make sure to sign and initial page seven, fifteen, and twentyeight?”
The hunter mutters a curse as he walks away, likely headed to the dining
hall, where he’ll spend the evening regaling any and all who will listen with
his extraordinary exploits.
Does he care that the blade he forgot to fortify before fighting the
gargoyle will cost two hundred eighty kevlings to replace?
No.
Did it cross his mind when he mindlessly charged into the fray that the
antibiotic tonic he would have to consume contains rare tundra crocus
stamens, and is worth more than liquid gold?
Of course not.
“Hunters,” I mutter under my breath, continuing to tally up his
expenses.
Around me, the guildhall is quiet. Most everyone has left for the day or
gone to dinner. But the doors to the training room are open, letting out the
sound of a few stragglers. We have a batch of recruits learning the ropes.
They’re eager to please now, but after they have a few dozen missions
under their belts, they’ll be as obnoxious as Atticus.
“Night, Benjamin,” one of them says as he walks past my office,
rubbing his shoulder like he hurt it during practice.
Nodding to him, I calculate the numbers two more times just to make
sure they’re correct.
“You have that look again.” Arthur pauses in my doorway on his way
out. “What’s the damage?”
Sitting back in my seat, I cross my arms. “Eight hundred thirty-seven
kevlings.”
“And how much did the job pay?”
“Five hundred fifty.”
Arthur winces.
“We’re not running a charity,” I remind him. “You need to raise our
rates.”
“We already charge more than Haverdell. If we go higher, we’ll price
ourselves out of the market.”
“Julian’s hunters are liars, cheats, and hacks,” I argue. “We’re the best
in the business. Surely that counts for something?”
“I’m not raising our rates,” Arthur says firmly.
“Fine,” I snap. “Then tell your hunters to stop being careless with guildissued equipment. They seem to think money grows on trees.”
“Surely you don’t expect them to add up their expenses while they’re
fighting?” Arthur says, frustrated. “Honestly, Benjamin.”
“I don’t see why they can’t.”
He rolls his eyes. “You haven’t been in the field in years. You don’t
remember what it’s like.”
“I know it’s not that hard to collect your crossbow bolts from a corpse,
and it only takes half a minute to fortify a blade before you go into a
gargoyle-infested cave. Do you have any idea how quickly those small
things add up?”
Arthur closes his eyes, massaging his temples as though the
conversation is giving him a headache. “You want our hunters to reuse
crossbow bolts?”
“It’s not that much to ask,” I argue. “With the amount we go through,
that alone would save the guild thousands of kevlings a month.”
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