Z'verse 3. Zoe's Room . Second Day of Shopping.

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Ghosts don't really need to recharge.

Swindle was still getting used to that fact when he turned the emitter back on with the first rays of light. Being 'awake' didn't bother him so much, he had plans and ideas to keep his mind occupied.

"Odd I recharge in the Dream, but not here," he said to himself, as he glanced over from where he sat, watching Zoe and Silver still snoozing away.

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Swindle stalls--he knows just how much just one seed would be worth in creds, or quite a few other currencies that could easily be converted to creds, but has NO idea about dek, and not a good way to ask Zoe about it in private, now that he was using an outside emitter. "The plant's worth at least ten thousand creds easy, but I have no clue about a cred to dek conversion..." Swindle starts.

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"Ten thousand?" Jon looks startled and dismayed.

Zoe sees this and nudges Swindle gently as she points to a simple woven and undyed blanket of coarse hemp. "How much would that be worth in creds?"

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Swindle considers the blanket. It's not something that he normally would be selling, so a price doesn't come immediately to mind. "Ah, about two hundred creds," Swindle was a bit uncertain, "Give or take on the buyer..."

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She nods. "That's a fifteen dek blanket. And one like it on Earth would be about twenty dollars."

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"That would make the plant close to...seven hundred fifty dek," Swindle quickly calculates, "And I could cut a deal on it. Seeds are worth more, they can stay in hibernation for cyc...years."

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Jon looks at the plant again, his thin face screwed up with thought. If this plant is everything Swindle says it is, he'll be able to raise his own fiber, and sell his weaving for less, which means he'd sell more. And maybe even the Protectorate would want to buy cloth of the sort that Swindle's mentioned.

"I could give you five hundred," he begins cautiously, knowing that haggling isn't his strong point.

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Swindle would normally press the issue, but he really wanted to get rid of the plant--he'd even consider leaving the annoying thing, but getting any money was always better in any case. "Just as long as people around here don't consider me a softspark," Swindle said with a grin, "Five hundred sounds..doable."

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"Do you want it all up front?" Jon runs over a list in his head of the people he knows who give loans.

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"I prefer it," Swindle admits, "But I can work out a payment plan.."