Talori had been on the surface long enough to understand a lot of things. One of them was that money was absolutely necessary for survival and almost everything required it.
Brennan had been taking care of everything for her all this time and she wanted to help him out. She had never thought about any of this before because of her life as a princess where everything was handled without her having to lift a finger.
It was different here. It was probably different for merfolk who weren't nobles too but she had been stuck in the coral palace and never saw it.
The system she grew up with seemed wrong to her now. Everybody she knew up here worked. Brennan was a marine biologist. Harmony and Piper helped run the health food store that was a front for the witch coven. Castian worked at a bank. They were all doing their part to participate in the world.