Nate was the station head of the Versailles family's relay station. To the Versailles family, this was a lucrative position. They could deduct some from the supplies distributed to the slaves, and another from the food harvest. Usually, they would raise one or two horses like wind-chasing horses or flame foals, which ran faster to send messages. Of course, the food they were fed with could not be compared to the normal wildebeests. They had to eat better food. The feed was distributed by the family, and Nat and the others could take a portion of it.
This kind of thing was very common in the relay station of ika plain. It was almost an open secret. The family turned a blind eye to this kind of thing. In the eyes of the family, it was a hard job to guard the relay station all year round.