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chin.  Most of my savings are with the Infin Merchants Bank in Jehhet.  If no one is accepting Crowns as currency then I am extremely limited by what I have in the Luion Traders Union Bank, which while a tidy sum for me to live off of, it’s not all that impressive when it comes to financing what we are up to.” 
    “Do any of you have any Luionese coin on you?” interrupted Shane.
    Roger reached into his pocket and pulled out a handful of coins holding them for Shane’s inspection.
    Shane reached out and selected one of each type and set them on console.  Taking his scribe he copied each side of each of the three coins then handed them back to the Luionese spy.  Then without a word turned and went back to his cabin.
    “What was that,” Nuekirk asked curious about what he had seen Shane do and at the casual attitude in which the four men that he had recently become employed by had towards what he considered to be a lot of money.
    “If I’ve learned anything from hanging around mages it’s this,” offered Shew with his best wise old man expression.  “If you don’t like lectures and you have a question, keep it to yourself; chances are the answer you get you won’t understand anyway.  If you hang around long enough things will start to make sense provided you survive.  Secondly,” Shew pulled the lad close and continued in a low voice.  “That man over there looking at those artifacts with all the lights and pictures.” Shew indicated toward Ari who was back at the console scanning for the whereabouts of his sister-in-law, “He’s a mage, but he’s also a former assassin and spy.  If you stacked up the brains of you, me, and Roger there, we still wouldn’t be as smart as he is. So if you ever get the idea to try and pull one over on him, don’t.  Nine times out of ten he will catch you before you can even execute a plan.  The tenth time he will catch you while you are in the act.  Lastly that young mage that keeps coming and going, he built everything magical on this boat. While he’s no former assassin, the way Roger over there tells it, he killed six crown soldiers with no more than a thought. He also fought off three brigands with his throat slashed.  Healed his wounds and captured them without even trying – oh and they don’t like it when you sneak up on them; it’s quite painful.”
    “Sneaking up on them hurts them?” Nuekirk asked an innocent expression on his face.
    “Not them, it hurts the person sneaking up on them,” growled Shew.   “Now get your scrawny carcass down below and stay there until I tell you otherwise.”
    The teen practically ran for the stairwell at the unexpected ire of the old man; unsuccessfully avoiding Shew’s boot as it connected with his backside – causing him to nearly tumble to the bottom.
    A few moments later Shane walked back into the room with a large brass bucket and three large replicas of the coins that Roger had let him examine.  “Shew how much coin do we need?
    Eyeing the bucket curiously Shew scratched his chin. “Five hundred golds, around a thousand silvers, maybe a couple of hundred copper pennies,” he said judiciously.
    Ari glanced at the bucket and the large coin replicas that appeared to be made from copper, silver, and gold, “I’d double that and take two thirds and put it on deposit at the Bank of Lu Y Onton and get a few notes.  Other than in training you haven’t paid that group you have working for you in Yllyan and they would appreciate it I’m sure.”
    Shane Led Shew below to the hold and opened up the main storage room.  “Get the kid in here, will you Shew?”  Shane asked as they entered the room.
    As soon as Nuekirk entered the room Shane turned to a stack of crates surrounding a new doorway.  This opens up into the old artifact dealer building that the magetechs use to get to Yllyan, except this one opens into the basement store room.  Shane handed each of them a copper coin with a pyramid on both