More than she was hoping

“Twenty gold sounds like a fair price to me…” the old man says, quickly noticing Jenny’s shoulders slump as her grin turns to a frown. “But for a fine warrior like you, I’ll make an exception.”

“Great!” Jenny’s eyes light up and her grin returns.

She starts to fish out her coin pouch, which the geezer and his drow companion each notice is very small… and empty.

“How about… three silver?” Jenny innocently grins.

Her effort to lowball them results in deadly silence.

“Um… ok, I meant eight silver?”

“Kid, you’ve got a warrior’s spirit, but come on, I got bills to pay,” the geezer says.

“I mean, I do too!” Jenny snaps back defensively as she thinks about her dear old mom back home, and what the poor woman must be up to. “And I still need to buy supplies and junk…”

“Just get them on credit,” the drow chimes in. “You could probably wrap a merchant or two around your finger just by batting your eyes.”

“Nah…” Jenny blushes at the comment. She’s never considered herself pretty (even though she totally is). “…Really?”

“Sure!” The geezer declares as he leans forward and delicately lifts the bag of coins out of Jenny’s clutches. “Just look how you’ve done with me!”

“Y-yeah?” Jenny asks again, as she seeks additional validation.

“You’ve got this girl,” the drow says as the old man hands her the money which she promptly slips out of sight.

The old man slips the wrinkled, ancient-looking map into the still distracted and flattered Jenny’s hands as he stands up.

“Yeah!” Jenny muses as she tightens her grip on the map, lost in her own fantasy of glory and riches as the old man and the drow quickly back away. “I’ve got this.”

Jenny stands up, striking a heroic and knightly pose that draws the eyes of every other patron and employee in the tavern (she’s been practicing in front of a mirror).

“I’ve got this!” She declares as a tired, dead-eyed tavern wench hands her the bill.

Jenny is woken from her day dream when she sees the total and remembers she just handed away her last bit of cash.

“Uh… put it on my tab…” she sheepishly declares.