While the meeting continued, Morrison and his companions had already begun to casually stroll around Hope Village, ready to get a good understanding of the territory from their own perspective.
But as they stepped out of the Tavern, they felt as if the territory had undergone some sort of change.
The layout was clearly the same, and yet it felt different.
"The number of buildings has increased! Yesterday there was an open space behind those shops, but today there are several more stores," someone keenly observed at Morrison's side.
Morrison listened, took a glance, and indeed noticed the extra row of shops.
Originally, he was a bit curious about the broad avenue left between the Tavern and Commercial Street. Now, seeing the shops filled in, he realized that such a layout was clearly aimed at the Tavern's guests.
In the future, once those shops were occupied, Tavern visitors would face the shops upon exiting, and they would likely take a stroll through them.
