832 Brave New World

The first one up was the Finance Minister and her family, as decided by the Council. If there was anyone who should be seen to be publicly supporting the measure, it was the one in charge of the city's finances, after all.

So, without hesitation, she led a large cargo truck next to Wolfe and came to whisper in his ear.

"We don't need to unload it, do we? I would rather not show the whole world how much money my Family has built up over the last two centuries." 

Wolfe had suspected that might be the case, but it would also make his life much easier, as nobody would be directly comparing net worth in public, so they wouldn't know how much he was topping the cubes up by. 

He had agreed to give them a favourable rate to help the city get back on its feet, but the Council Families had been abusing their power for a long time, and it was better to set things right, even if just a little bit.