Stella Sterling took the pig and retrieved the forty catties of grain before she let the man go.
Afterward, she saw someone from the trading post drive the pig seller away, telling him he was banned from trading there ever again.
Stella Sterling felt no sympathy for him, nor did she intervene.
What had happened before was between her and the pig seller. What happened now was a matter of the trading post's management.
'Did that man do something wrong?'
'In this apocalypse, it couldn't really be called wrong. It was all for the sake of survival.'
'But if you're going to scheme against others, you have to be prepared for the backlash.'
'If he had run into someone else, he might have gotten away with it. If he'd managed to scam a dozen more catties of grain, that would have been a testament to his skill.'
'But he ran into me. So in the end, he lost dozens of catties of his own and got kicked out. He had it coming.'
