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Ky nodded. "What other sorts of things are there?"

"Are there are a lot of jewelry vendors there?" Ky asked.

"Just please don't send me away," she murmured, voice doing that annoying squeak that happens when you've been crying for too long. "Please. That will help." Kieran timidly pushed the ...

Ky smiled a little and dipped her head. "I'd like that very much, thank you."

"...Why?" she asked. "You didn't do this..." Kieran knocked on the office door hesitantly, not at all enjoying the thought of having to be back in public view and on ...

"Aleth had me for functionality, not aesthetics." Ky shrugged, glancing away. "And I was too poor as a kid." She was too poor now, too. "But... maybe in the future. ...

She nodded and snuggled even deeper into his arms, breathing wobbly. "I'm sorry." Jerica got to the parlor quickly. The guard that'd escorted them from the parlor to the office ...

(ooh nice! I like that detail) "Uh... I don't know," Ky admitted. "I've never had any."

A fresh wave of tears dribbled from Ky's eyes and she snuggled into him, closing them tightly. "I don't feel good." Zander and Derik both sighed, accidentally mirroring each other ...

"Fine," she said glumly, looking very small and not looking up at him. "As if I can trust you to be honest about them," she scoffed. "You're a liar ." ...

(ooh nice! That makes things easier lol I was super lazy in my novel and made a trade language people literally just refer to as Trade and one of the ...

(did Tomhas sit down next to her?) Ky nodded, deciding it wasn't something to waste any of her valuable energy on at this moment. She was too upset. Too exhausted. ...

"That's how it is in Austraka as well," Talia confirmed with a nod. "Lots of gold chains and gems and such."

(oops) "Why?" Ky asked. Jerica was getting progressively more and more worked up, which reflected itself in her tone, volume, and the speed at which she paced angrily. Derik and ...

Why had that upset him? Talia hesitated, glancing at him. Had she said something wrong? She glanced over at Ky, then back at Emery. "Those sound... exotic."