Why didn't he just swipe it then and say nothing? She's sure the shopkeeper wouldn't have missed an insignificant trinket like that. No one else was likely to buy it unless they have poor taste or a strange affinity for falcons. Or both.
Fortunately, she's been in Highstorm long enough to collect her stipend, and she'd been intent on spending it on her two favorite necessities: wine and cigarettes. Maybe a new spear, too. But now she has to use some of it just to stop this stranger's braying whines.
She sighs out loud before slapping some currency down in front of the vendor. The trinket is hardly expensive enough to be worth having an altercation over, and she's not in the mood to be party to any of it. ]
There. It's yours. You can pay me back once you've settled in. I don't need anything else beyond the same amount in coins.
[ Nor will she accept anything else, regardless of what he offered the vendor. The man is barely clothed and in bad enough shape as it is. ]
Highstorm antiqueing;
Why didn't he just swipe it then and say nothing? She's sure the shopkeeper wouldn't have missed an insignificant trinket like that. No one else was likely to buy it unless they have poor taste or a strange affinity for falcons. Or both.
Fortunately, she's been in Highstorm long enough to collect her stipend, and she'd been intent on spending it on her two favorite necessities: wine and cigarettes. Maybe a new spear, too. But now she has to use some of it just to stop this stranger's braying whines.
She sighs out loud before slapping some currency down in front of the vendor. The trinket is hardly expensive enough to be worth having an altercation over, and she's not in the mood to be party to any of it. ]
There. It's yours. You can pay me back once you've settled in. I don't need anything else beyond the same amount in coins.
[ Nor will she accept anything else, regardless of what he offered the vendor. The man is barely clothed and in bad enough shape as it is. ]