Chapter 34: The Empty Wings

Chapter 34: The Empty Wings

The figures from the past days filled three pages of the ledger, and Beorn had already gone through them twice before Lewin arrived that morning and took up his own notation work at the side table.

The marks from the seized operations ran in a column down the right margin of the first page. Six figures total from the strongboxes, ranging from what Cenwulf’s had to a smaller amount from a grain merchant’s private office. His funds were better than the days before the seizures, though not by enough to make him comfortable. Beorn recorded it that way and moved on to the next page.

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