Lukas turned to see a man standing in the aisle, arms folded, and with an expression that said his patience had been tested before and he'd developed a low threshold for it as a result.
"You guys won't pay the fare?" he asked, drawing attention from other passengers.
"Oh. My apologies," Lukas said. "We're new here."
The man's expression didn't change, but he waited.
Lukas found the fare price on a sticker affixed to the interior wall of the tram, and paid for all three of them without complaint. The man moved on.
Lukas sat back down with a soft sigh.
Of course the tram wasn't free. The Le Fays governed this city and had provided infrastructure at this scale, but philanthropy and governance were different things. Everything here ran on someone paying for it.
He filed that away and turned his attention back to the window.
The tram moved through Salaria at a pace that seemed to slow to them, but would be considered fast for a normal human.
