"Ah! Wonderful. I am so grateful for your understanding, little girl. Only let me…"
He stepped closer, until he could bend down over her head. Even if he hadn't been able to taste the depth of her agony, it would have been obvious to see the way her ears were pinned against her skull. Careful not to touch her – because he was so very good at not touching anyone that had not asked first – he balanced her book on top of her head.
"There," he said cheerfully. "Now just wait here, if you please."
With that, he disappeared into the back hall to head upstairs to his office.
His safe was built into the wall, and he hadn't needed to get into it in quite some time. He hummed as he looked over wrapped stacks of bills, one of nearly a hundred such stacks that had been sitting in his safe since the last time he needed to turn gold into cash.
Five, then?
His gaze drifted down to lower in the safe, stacks of gold, enough bricks to build a decent little wall if the mood struck him. Baskets and baskets of little trinkets he'd acquired, some of them only valuable in the way this girl's book was valuable. Teddy bears, lockets. Strings of pearls and ruby rings and coins from when coins had been minted in precious metals.
It would be cheating not to give her any cash. And then she might think he didn't have any.
Three stacks. Thirty thousand in cash, available to spend immediately. And one leather purse, of the kind that used to be so common, with just enough gold coins and jewelry to hint at untold treasures she could never dream of having.
When he came back downstairs, he was tutting his tongue, riffling through thirty thousand dollars like the pages of a cheap book. "I fear there is only thirty for you–" Not lying, not a lie, there was more than thirty but it wasn't for her. "–and so I must beg your forgiveness, and ask if you are willing to accept these for the difference."
He dropped the little purse on the floor in front of her, with a satisfying clatter of gold against gold.
He stepped closer, until he could bend down over her head. Even if he hadn't been able to taste the depth of her agony, it would have been obvious to see the way her ears were pinned against her skull. Careful not to touch her – because he was so very good at not touching anyone that had not asked first – he balanced her book on top of her head.
"There," he said cheerfully. "Now just wait here, if you please."
With that, he disappeared into the back hall to head upstairs to his office.
His safe was built into the wall, and he hadn't needed to get into it in quite some time. He hummed as he looked over wrapped stacks of bills, one of nearly a hundred such stacks that had been sitting in his safe since the last time he needed to turn gold into cash.
Five, then?
His gaze drifted down to lower in the safe, stacks of gold, enough bricks to build a decent little wall if the mood struck him. Baskets and baskets of little trinkets he'd acquired, some of them only valuable in the way this girl's book was valuable. Teddy bears, lockets. Strings of pearls and ruby rings and coins from when coins had been minted in precious metals.
It would be cheating not to give her any cash. And then she might think he didn't have any.
Three stacks. Thirty thousand in cash, available to spend immediately. And one leather purse, of the kind that used to be so common, with just enough gold coins and jewelry to hint at untold treasures she could never dream of having.
When he came back downstairs, he was tutting his tongue, riffling through thirty thousand dollars like the pages of a cheap book. "I fear there is only thirty for you–" Not lying, not a lie, there was more than thirty but it wasn't for her. "–and so I must beg your forgiveness, and ask if you are willing to accept these for the difference."
He dropped the little purse on the floor in front of her, with a satisfying clatter of gold against gold.
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