Over the past month the heirs managed to find activities to preoccupy themselves.  Ehren was no different after Rose's ambition to raise an army has led to a shortage in several areas of the village's productivity.  As a result he was doing his part in the daily hunts in order to provide food and help offset the cost of importing food from Doroga.  With the roads being as rough and unaccommodating to wagon travel, it certainly wasn't cheap to do so.  As a result to help several more avenues of development, he also urged the woodcutters to focus their efforts along the roadway in an attempt to widen it for easier and safer travel.<br/><br/>By the end of the month a missive had returned in response to Gilbert's request for a meeting with the closest merchant guild located in Vaardenfel, which is a ten-day boat voyage departing from Doroga.  While your letter was certainly impressive and piqued the guildmaster's interest, the development of so many new communities in much less remote regions has left them overwhelmed with work.  As a result, they would be unable to send a representative down to Garados anytime in the foreseeable future.  Though, if you and those you represented in the letter were truly intent on establishing bartering relations in a more timely manner, you are more than welcome to visit them in person to see what arrangements can be made.  Unfortunately it is part of their standard operations to require a face-to-face meeting with the individual (or majority of the council in this case) in order to conduct initial official business.