Jamie then understood that officials know officials best. The more she listened, the more astonishing it seemed.
"Yes, let's just not take them to any place that grows food. After they leave, no one will come to check up on us."
He became more and more brave and his expression, made Jamie wonder if she should worry about being deceived by him. Yes, she should. Officials are tricksters. They can sway any way.
She looked at Sawyer. Then she saw his calm expression. He was the king of tricksters. He was more tricky than anyone else.
He could fight when the city lord, if someday it happened, betrayed them.
"Yeah, we should make a plan. No one should know what we are doing. Otherwise, they will control us and they will take away everything that is produced. We won't have a grain or a leaf to eat and then we will again be at their mercy."
Sawyer added. And it made more sense to Jamie than it did to the city lord.
