Settling the deal

9th October 1574

Making deals with just words? That could only happen in the heat of the moment. After the initial agreement, both of the sides took a proper rest before sitting down in a room, a map and several barrels of Tarnowian beer. 

"So, your main interests lay within the marked zones, while the additionally marked lands are to be leased to you, right?"

With just the two of us, sitting at the table while sipping on the drink, a lot of the time usually spent on the formalities could be spared.

"Yeah. Those red marks are the locations of the possible mining areas, along with blue marks for the industrial areas. Between them, the yellow markings mean our intended path of the train, with black dots meaning train station."

Pointing my finger at the specific places on the map, I repeated the map's legend once again.