The problem was solved; a group would consist of two people, and that way, they would try to enter the businesses that had a door to the Trade Square. They didn't give up on their enthusiasm, but they were dismissed every time by the security guards standing at the gates of the shops with decorated windows.
In any case, the entrance doors of a few shops opened to the Trade Square, there were at most two shops in the area between the cul-de-sacs, and this was twenty shops with guards at the entrance. The students of the Ninth Ward, who failed to enter them, diverted their route to the shops at the opening of the dead-end streets, where they could at least buy something.
Their guesses were correct, they could both enter and shop in these shops, but here, and too, and some surprises awaited them. The prices were exorbitant, and shopkeepers put two price tags on all items, knowing they were in the Near Circle.
