Back at the community, Mariam had taken the helm and was on paper the perfect ruler for the community as her ideals were slowly taking shape even though it wasn't much of a democracy, people rarely complained because it had a sense of the old world.
There was food and even a currency to encourage them to work harder but this also meant that theft was one of the few things that remained.
The sad truth was not everyone was useful, not everyone could be assigned a task that gave them a decent amount of income.
So the lower class were beginning to subtly revolt or rather, someone from the lower class.
It was strange that such a problem remained in the first place but that was one of those things that one couldn't escape regardless of the state of the world.
This rise in theft made the people who did meagre jobs be seen as a liability because one bad egg, unfortunately, ruined the batch.
