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Original X-roads-2003
In the Present…
Months had passed, Sertoff had taken Mesiaha under his wing and started to teach her better sword techniques. It took him several tries, and sometimes several days, to teach her a new stance or swing.
It gave him a headache day after day, trying to teach her anything. A headache he drank away, then slipped into a deep slumber. So he could wake the next morning and start it all over again.
The thing he wanted most, out of his long drudging day, was simply to take control of Mesiaha’s mind the way he had everyone else in Othesis. He could make her do everything the right way every time. He told himself he needed to learn self control, and this would certainly do it.
Trade was still suspended to and from Haven. Many speciality items had gone up so high in price that new fortunes were made. Not all of the money went to the right hands, as far as Sertoff was concerned.
Harley now ran a high dollar black market. His best selling contraband were temperature force fields. Most places had them now, even Othesis had a few. Sertoff had them placed in the barracks, the troops dining hall, and various rooms within the Castle to make life more bearable for the people who had to live and work there. Jonothan used Zariaha to keep Haven lush so the food stocks remained plentiful. He could not lay a finger on Harley or the people would revolt against him.
Sertoff could do little to stop it anyway, and he would not take the crown to enforce any new laws.