Just like what the woman on the farm told us, Wonchon did lie just a week ride away and we arrived at the city gates in a span of five days on the road. We took into consideration her warning that the ruler only accepted middle income settlers and not poor people.
How uncommon I thought, and cruel for the poor ones were displaced into the farms and villages we passed through on our way to Wonchon while only the ones who can earn an income were allowed to live inside the city. The only thing Lee and I owned was just the horse - and it was worn out and exhausted after such gruesome journey.
The stallion was the same one we took from Leilani. Perhaps a few weeks before we fled it may have costed much, even five shillings or more but now it could barely move.
"What will we do?" I asked Lee when we stood on a queue waiting for our turn to be searched and walk inside the city. "We have nothing"
"I know"
