Lord Baal's body double blinked. The ladies brought back groceries as promised for the feast and didn't seem troubled at all. Unable to help himself, he demanded details about their trip to town. Wiser received some really strange stones that made Lord Baal wary for a while.
"What happened while you were there?" he asked while Qin Yun and Amaraline busied away in the kitchen.
"Nothing much," she said airily. "We just set up bank accounts and took out a loan to start a small shop."
"My account should have been frozen. What did you give as collateral? Also, what's with those strange stones? I feel something unpleasant from them."
The trader grinned. "Now that is something we're trying to find out over the next few days. The only lead we have is the auction house. I was hoping you could help us with that since the bank's manager isn't a very helpful person. I hope he enjoyed the interest I returned after he tried to rip us off."
