Forged Destiny [Book 1: Ch. 3]

""You've got a good eye, son. Fifty lien."

"Forty."

He raised an eyebrow, but I hadn't grown up with seven Shopkeeper sisters and my mother without learning something. Mom had words for people who bought things at full value, and they weren't complimentary. Plus, it was kind of the Smith's fault for running his own store. There was a reason most people hired a Shopkeeper, even if it meant giving them a percentage of your profits.

"Forty-five," the man grunted, and I agreed by handing some lien over. In all honesty I could have probably dragged it lower but fifty had been a good price anyway and I didn't want to turn him angry at Ruby when she came to pay."

—Forged Destiny [Book 1: Ch. 3]