Romon looked up and sized up the burly, bald man standing at the table. Golden Stone—the name rang a bell. Back when he'd first hired Talia, he'd gone over Golden Stone's file.
This man was a specialist in earth magic and had a bit of a reputation around Stone Town.
"Welcome, 'Bedrock of Stone Town.'"
"Lord, how much would my monthly salary be?" Golden Stone asked, his demeanor honest and a little embarrassed to bring up money.
Romon thought for a moment. If he remembered right, when he'd seen Golden Stone on the hiring market before, the man's ideal annual salary was 50 gold coins. That worked out to a monthly salary of about 4.1 gold—so rounding down, Romon set it at 4 gold, treating the leftover 2 gold as a sort of agent's fee.
"Four gold a month, with paid leave," Romon offered.
