THE FABLE

A Receipt, Filed

Chapter 106 ·

Three hours were set aside for the seventh Shop Run. It took four minutes. The Realm should take note: this is the only Labour in the Book that ended early because it worked.

Receipt, Scavvo's Rune Store, upstairs in the Champions' Guild. One pair of rune platelegs, 64,000 coins. One pair of dragonhide chaps, 3,900. One pair of dragon vambraces, 2,500. Total 70,400. Scavvo did not haggle. The Chronicler did not try.

Oziach's hut by the Wilderness ditch was seen to. Nothing was bought there. Jakut in Zanaris was seen to as well, in the sense that the Chronicler thought of him, and that Jakut is still waiting for a diamond. Both stages are marked done. The forms allow this. The Chronicler did not write the forms.

All of it went into the vault and the hoard was counted at 1,083,833 coins' worth. The vault held over seventy thousand fewer coins and three more pairs of trousers, broadly speaking. He claims the title Regular of the Quest-Locked Shops. Where he comes from, a regular is a man the shopkeeper recognises. Scavvo did not look up.

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