Turtle & Canary, Thursday

[boneyard_girl]

Yes, Ada was skipping work -- again -- but this time for an even better cause.

She didn't particularly want to be doing it today, but, well, she'd made a promise last week, and she'd be damned b'fore she broke her word over one of Fandom's stupid weekends

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[vrajna_kralis]

"I'm no wealthy scion of Elua to turn my nose up at cheap and serviceable," Hyacinthe said with a laugh. "Goes against my nature to pay full price for aught as it is. Did you know, most places on this island refuse to barter?" He sounded quite aggrieved by this. "They claim a price and then just expect us to pay without even an attempt to haggle!"

Who did that?

[boneyard_girl]

"Barbaric is what it is," Ada muttered, shaking her head. "But you can't expect Townies t' know the actual value of the stuff they're selling. They bought it from someone else, an' didn't barter with them, sos they aren't willing to lose a single penny when selling to us."

[vrajna_kralis]

"If I'd known that one of my trials here on the island was to have to pay because of the gadje's ignorance, I might have been less willing to take Messire Delaunay's offer," Hyacinthe sniffed. "Makes me think about lapsing back into bad habits of my youth to make up for it. Would pain me less to pay such prices for nonsense were it also covering several other items."

Though this island was much smaller than the city of Elua and he hadn't had time to either build up the petted indulgence that had let him get away with so much in his youth nor the idea of which shopkeeps could afford to lose merchandise and which could not. Also, which deserved to.

[boneyard_girl]

"That's what Baltimore is for," Ada promised. "--th' city that's normally parked at th' other end of our causeway."

"'S big an' anonymous an' has plenty of wallets in need of liberation."