Why would you give a servent 5G even if he was the one fighting that is his job ... he paid for the healer anyway ... And even if he sells the gem the same day ... Most sane people will think he found it somewhere not that he mergead 3 to make a bigger one
I never understand why they do this type of thing in almost all stories i understand the need of conflict or anything to move the story but it gets old and repetitive the MC always makes a stupid actions and then suffers for it while i don't know if that will happen here i expect a 90% chance that it will go wrong.
But a smell shivered him awake.
It was a scent as old as the world. It was a hundred aromas of a thousand places. It was the tang of pine needles. It was the musk of sex. It was the muscular rot of mushrooms. It was the spice of oak. Meaty and redolent of soil and bark and herb. It was bats and husks and burrows and moss. It was solid and alive - so alive! And it was close.
The vapors invaded Nicholas' nostrils and his hair rose to their roots. His eyes were as heavy as manhole covers, but he opened them. Through the dying calm inside him snaked a tremble of fear.
The trees themselves seemed tense, waiting. The moonlight was a hard shell, sharp and ready to ready be struck and to ring like steel.
A shadow moved.
It poured like oil from between the tall trees and flowed across dark sandy dirt, lengthening into the middle of the ring. Trees seem to bend toward it, spellbound. A long, long shadow...
Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path
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