Gordie began to map everything by date, making notes on the map that was set under the glass of the desktop.
"Alright, we have the first incidents here and here. These are nearly six weeks ago, and the most likely to be legitimate. They're from Dukes in West Keria and Skiple, neither of which are close enough to have gotten more than one shipment of goods from Wistover by then.
They also wouldn't have known about our new airship program and plans, I think, as it hadn't started the route when they started asking.
Then, we had the requests in the south. Rill, when did you first send a shipment there?"
"Two days before the requests. However, one of the men who came to ask worked at a Manor which had received one of the fireplaces as a gift from the Guild. There was a letter of origin on it for the customer, so that they knew where we had gotten it, and how valuable our shipping was.
A subtle flex to remind them that their money wasn't enough to sway us in negotiations."
