Drifting (Part 2)

"You don’t know?" Lex asked. "Then why did you give her sixty thousand gold coins? Do you know how many Caucasus people that could feed?"

"She deserved it, just like how we split the items in god’s hell," Saleen retaliated.

"In addition to hunting, the main source of food for Caucasus people are potato biscuits. One kilogram of white potatoes there goes for one copper coin. Together with wood flour, almost two kilograms of it can be made. Wood flour is worth even less, so one can get almost two thousand kilograms of food with one and a half gold coins. The money that you have sent over will be enough for her village to survive for years."

"What’s the use of saying all this? We’re two thousand miles away from the coast. We still don’t know if we’ll be able to make it back."

"With me, what are you afraid of?"