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Whether it was the dockworkers loading and unloading cargo, the pedestrians hurrying along nearby streets, or the hawkers shouting their wares in the roadside markets, everyone was straining to make the clink of coins in their pockets ring just a little louder.
Yet in the port where legends of sudden wealth were born every day, stories of overnight riches rarely had anything to do with the busy majority.
Take Mojave, for instance. Having just struck it rich, he was sprawled drunk in a tavern early in the morning, bragging loudly to a group of fellow alcoholics who were just as hungover as he was. “You lot who’ve never gone to sea in your entire lives could never imagine how shocking it is out there! Crates and bundles of gold just lying on the beach with nobody picking them up! A single assault rifle can be traded for a crimson saber pelt worth a fortune!”
Listening to that dry, hoarse voice, a drunkard at the next table downed a mouthful of watered-down alcohol and chuckled mockingly.
“Buddy, we don’t need to go to sea.”
“Exactly!”
Another drunk chimed in with a laugh.
“I’ve got five shops in Silvermoon...
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