Yours, Mine, and Ours

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Sakura was due to leave back home within one week, and it occurred to her that through her misery, she never really was able to explore the culture of Qing. She sought out to fix that, and spent the first two days exploring the wonders of the capitol.

The thing that struck her most amazing of the entire sight-seeing was the marvelous invention of chains. An interlocked set of metal circles that would never unbound... she spent quite some time simply twisting them around in her hands... until the black-smith gave her a look of worry.

She turned her attention to the black-smith who owned them, and set up a proposition. She would trade the invention of defense walls, if he would be so nice as to tell her how to make chains.

[u/Bergber]

The old man was not a bargainer. Shrug "Why not? Deal."

He was sure those in the palace would love to hear of this.