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Ebb and Flow 2.1

Fen Zhi awoke slowly at the first signs of morning within his home. He cursed as he opened his eyes, seeing the cracks in the cabin letting through small golden rays that burned his eyes. He rubbed at them rapidly before sighing, sitting up on his bed and yawning as he tried to wake himself up. From outside he heard plenty of commotion, but for the last month that was always the case with Sang-Yal riding everyone to work as hard as possible and to keep looking for his fabulous riches. Fen Zhi didn’t have much respect for the monsu governor; he was seemingly a fool and an ambitious one at that, which was something Fen Zhi found dangerous from his time in the legions.

Poor Dor-Jee had her hands filled constantly dealing with Sang-Yal’s faux pas and accidental insults. It seemed each day he worked to undermine the workers with his constant demands, and yet still the young monsu woman managed to keep the colonists together and the workers in sight of their goal. Even Fen Zhi could not deny that given the circumstances the colony was being managed well enough, and that nobody had gone hungry yet or overworked. That was probably a mixture of Dor-Jee and Yan Meng’s help, since the governor would have preferred everyone was out in the jungle all hours of the day digging up rocks.

Zhi rose from his bed finally and reached for his tunic, which he had hung on a small crate sitting in his room. They still hadn’t any furniture, which was ever the annoyance, but Zhi figured he should’ve been satisfied enough with his current loggings. Most of the other workers were forced to bunk together to save on time and space, since Sang-Yal refused to take away too many hands from his own campaign into the woodlands as part of Yan Meng’s exploration.

It was a constant cycle of labor, with Sang-Yal egging everyone on with promises of glory and wealth within their reach, yet each day it seemed more and more unlikely. Something would have to give sooner or later, or the colonists would begin to doubt Sang-Yal and if something like that happened, they would soon be for home again. Even Dor-Jee would not be able to stop that.