I took a breath in, "Listen, I don;t understand this cash or card thing you have," I pulled a leather pouch attached to my belt, "this is what I trade in." I pulled out two bars of solid gold.
The man looked confused, and for once his smug i-know-everything-look was dropped, "ummmm, you can take those to the bank and get them traded for cash." He had a better tone with me now, clearly these two bars were worth something in this world, even if he wouldn't trade them someone would.
He put our boxes in a locked cabinet under the podium with this odd machine telling me how much he wanted, clearly over rated pricing but I told Lilly I would handle it, and she walked with me to this bank place. It was just down the road and we wouldn't be long, I hoped.
Tears were in her eyes as we entered
