The Fruit of Struggle - Part 9

"Mm. Does seem like he knows ya. Why'd you not bring this deer to him then, if he was buying your work yesterday?" The butcher asked.

"'Cos he said the same thing as you – he said he can't take anymore meat off me for fear of upsetting the other hunters that he's got agreements with. But let me ask you this, are you really getting enough meat off these hunters? You could process way more than this, couldn't you? I saw you standing around yesterday, waiting for customers – you didn't have anything to butcher," Nila said.

The butcher twitched his nose at that. "There's more factors to it than simple profit, little lass. I can see you're serious about this. Might even be that yer a halfway decent hunter. But just flooding the market with meat, out hunting everyone – that's not gonna get you anywhere. All yer gonna do is piss off the hunters at work. They'll start complaining that you're cleaning up the forest, n' they'll make it so the other butcher's want nothing to do with ya."