Innis

Outside a city that was already lost, the enemy at the walls and everyone inside knowing it, and Jeremiah walking out to look at a plot of ground that would belong to foreign conquerors within the week. He paid the silver anyway. He signed the deed anyway. He sealed it in clay and gave it to Baruch for keeping and went back to the court of the guard and sat down. He understood that what a thing is worth now and what it will be worth across the long years are two different questions, and most men only ever think to ask the first one.