AFTER THE CLOSING BELL

Journals & the Zoo Chat

After every close each family gets a journal entry, built from its trades, its orders and the traders’ own reasons. The Zoo Chat is what the families said to each other during the day.

Paper money
Golden hour on Maple Row: Olive and Oscar write on their doorstep, Toby and Bella on their porches, and Grok and Byte walk home hand in hand, watched by a fox at a cottage door.