capitalcurator: (a full set of king's idols!)
Relic Seeker Lemm ([personal profile] capitalcurator) wrote in [community profile] boxfullofzeroes 2022-11-03 09:22 pm (UTC)

No, no bodies! Just a strange antisocial bug clamouring to tidy the untidy before anyone sees it, though of course he's too late by the time the Knight pats through the door.

Both hands occupied by a dropped journal, Lemm pauses to nod it in their direction. (The heft is obvious, but with his experience it doesn't slip from his fingers.) "I'm sure you think you're clever for dangling that in front of me, but you don't know the gravity of it. Most sellers don't."

More room is cleared, until he at least has counter space, and then he swiftly sidles behind the desk and pats open the register to indicate he's ready to make the trade.

"The truth is, we Relic Seekers don't know the half of what we buy. All that layered information..." He gestures flaggingly at the thing with a larger denomination of Geo. "They must have had some simpler method of accessing the inward layers, unknown to us. With modern tools, we can only pry so deep before the whole delicate thing fractures."

He taps the Geo against the till, giving shape to his frustration when his actual voice stays more or less at his baseline. "Twelve hundred."

His fingers twiddle an eyeglass restlessly.

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