Chapter 6
WITHIN A FEW very long days, Sady went from being a senator too academic to warrant much discussion to being one of the most-discussed in the city of Tiverius. Everyone knew about his distribution of salt pills. Everyone had their opinion, too, mostly unfavourable. Budget problems were bad enough already, they said. He should have asked for permission, they said. Maybe he should have, but it had been within his spending limit without having to ask permission.
Destran then halted the distribution of those pills, at which border regions which hadn’t yet received supplies sent a veritable avalanche of telegrams asking why they didn’t get the pills while the neighbouring district had received them.
With his distribution program cut short and half the southern districts angry at hi
