He shrugged. "A merchant or a craftsman needs customers," he said. "A teacher, students. A healer, patients. A warrior, battles to fight. There are simply too few people at present to require such things constantly. A more workable system would be something similar to guild leves, where individual tasks are offered for compensation, rather than longer term employment for wages."

"Here, of course, work is a necessity, if we wish to keep ourselves fed and the building at least marginally livable. Though for myself, at least, I'm hardly a stranger to physical labor, and I find it preferable to brooding."