CHAPTER SIX
RISPAN
The news was all over the streets. There was going to be an official Workers Guild in Pokorah-Vo. People didn’t know how it was happening or who the Guildmaster would be, but there were already strikes and riots going on.
We had spread word, just as planned. We talked about how poorly treated the workers were and how they were paid a pittance. We’d assumed there would be some growling agreement about it, but we had vastly underestimated the level of dissatisfaction in the city. We hadn’t needed to bring up slavery; that had come up on its own how using slaves was driving down the wages for working citizens and causing unemployment.
It was the Ministers’ responsibility to maintain order in their District. King Vegak had tripled the guard at the Palace, but he hadn’t l
