"The scale doesn't shift!" The female official said. She'd turned into something of an announcer now. It was all quite odd to Vol.
"That means, undoubtedly, there is far more than a 100 gold coins on this side," the banker said, patiently explaining the simple maths for some of the simpler soldiers – evidently, he didn't trust them to grasp even something as basic as this. "Add another weight, if you would."
"Again, the scale doesn't shift!2
"Another weight – 2 this time."
"Again, it doesn't shift! That means we're past 400 golds, right banker?" The female official continued.
"But of course," the banker said. "Slaves, if you would load up another 6 weights."
The slaves did so with a quickness, though they grunted from the effort when they had to resort to carrying two of the iron blob weights at once.
