...They'd forgotten this part. Not only retrieval, but trade. Or...selling.
This situation seems incorrect. Bugs behind counters gave items, and the ones that came in gave geo. Unless one was stealing. None stole in the Capital, none but fools, and those fools would be skewered two steps from the door by any Sentry that was tired of listening to the nobles yet wary of causing--
They reel in their mind back to the shop. As backwards as this is, this shop is Lemm's, and they have no reason to question him.
But first, they take another item out.
A chunk of stone, larger than their hand, heavy. The noise it makes hitting the desk makes them twitch.
There's a name scrawled on it, an age, a tiny eulogy. A piece of gravestone from someone who passed long before Hallownest fell. This may be a disrespectful act, but venturing upward to the lowest level of the Resting Grounds left them stumbling over the wreckage of dozens of ruined tombstones and small memorial statues. This was one that was intact enough to decipher, and leaving it...
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Date: 2020-08-30 05:45 pm (UTC)This situation seems incorrect. Bugs behind counters gave items, and the ones that came in gave geo. Unless one was stealing. None stole in the Capital, none but fools, and those fools would be skewered two steps from the door by any Sentry that was tired of listening to the nobles yet wary of causing--
They reel in their mind back to the shop. As backwards as this is, this shop is Lemm's, and they have no reason to question him.
But first, they take another item out.
A chunk of stone, larger than their hand, heavy. The noise it makes hitting the desk makes them twitch.
There's a name scrawled on it, an age, a tiny eulogy. A piece of gravestone from someone who passed long before Hallownest fell. This may be a disrespectful act, but venturing upward to the lowest level of the Resting Grounds left them stumbling over the wreckage of dozens of ruined tombstones and small memorial statues. This was one that was intact enough to decipher, and leaving it...
Well. They did not leave it.