He placed the quill down and rubbed the bridge of his beak, leaning back in his chair, sighing. The white-headed griffon groaned as he moved the scrolls away from him. He thought he had sorted out most of Geoffrey’s damage soon after becoming king, and in truth, Joachim had. Then came the debt problems. The Republic of the Greycoast was charging additional interest, concerned with the recent change of leadership in Gethrenia. What that really meant was that now Joachim had fixed the country enough to finally have gold coming into the treasury at a steady pace once again, Greycoast was concerned it’d lose one of its debtors since Joachim began paying it back and sought to keep Gethrenia within their clammy grasp.