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Message: <blockquote data-quote="simmo" data-source="post: 1549822" data-attributes="member: 9744">Part 29 Souled Gems Down the River“So then she said: I will take these from you and give them their final rest. I can recompense you five thousand jinks.” Cade lent back on his chair and puffed his pipe. As he talked he gesticulated wildly with his hands, threatening to tip the fine balance of the chair completely.Serena nodded her head in an absent-minded fashion, but Cade did not appear notice.“Well, if a beautiful aasimar makes you an offer like that she's bound to be willing to go higher. So then I says to her: Shall we say six thousand?”The heart seer of Tomeri nodded her head again and began to finger the pendant that held her Garden.“It is a higher figure than I am willing to go, she said cool as a Dustman.” Cade chuckled. “Of course she happens to be a Dustman so it seemed apt. Let's say fifty five hundred, she offered me and I was sorely tempted.”'The Garden would be a nice place to visit right now', Serena thought to herself.“So I said to her: Someone who is ready to offer me five thousand is likely to be willing to higher.” Cade grinned at the memory of the negotiation and felt a stirring in his purse. “I could see that she was thinking about it so I made my final offer: Let's say five thousand six hundred.”'No the Garden is not a place that I should go to every time that I am bored or feel lost', Serena thought. The seer shook her head and Cade mistook it as a sign that she thought the aasimar Dustmen would refuse the offer.“You’re wrong because she did accept my final offer. Yes it came as a bit of a surprise to me too, but you would not catch me complaining.” Cade took a money pouch from his belt and slid it across the table.Serena watched the pouch slowly draw closer but her mind was on other matters. 'The Garden is a place where four Forms of Love exist that Tomeri charged me to find', she thought. 'Perhaps they are meant to show me how to see the different forms of Love in everyday life around me. I will try to spend less time in the Garden', she decided.“Well, now that lovely lady called Qaida has the soul gems and she assured me that they are off to their final resting place. Here's a thousand jinks for you.” Cade continued to smile despite noticing that Serena did not look very happy. He got up and left her to her thoughts alone in the kitchen at 34b Stonecutter's Row.'Why does it feel like we did the wrong thing?' Serena asked herself. The seer experienced a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach and pushed the coin pouch away.</blockquote>

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