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“That’s right,” Cookie agreed “But I don’t want to shoot no one Unless they mess with the Healer”

“And we need gold why?” Quinn asked a bit shrilly

“We need et so far with barter We need a system, and the system works better if you have a basis for the currency”

“Uh-huh”

“Okay, look, take the fish business, right?” Albert began

“It hasn’t been h yesterday to make bait”

“You’ll have good days and bad days,” Albert said impatiently “Some days you’ll have a lot of fish So let’s say you want to trade soes”

“Sounds good, actually You know soes?”

“You have enough fish that you want to trade soes, and some for bread, and some for a kid to clean your rooo with your fish in your hand to pay someone”

“Is anyone else really starving right now?” Quinn joked “I es? Bread? Stop”

Albert ignored hi things, is you can have a ht? All in one place And everyone is walking around with pieces of gold, not their fish, or a wheelbarrow full of corn or whatever, trying to make deals”

Quinn said, “Either way, I’ around selling the still and people are co to me to trade, but either way—”

“No,your fish to so, because that’s what you’re good at Not selling fish Catching fish”

Quinn frowned “Youthem to you”

“Could be,” Albert agreed “Then I sell the what you do and I’ what I do, and to make all that work out easy peasy we need money of some kind”