I can also exchange it for $7.15 in American dollars.

"I'll probably just take food. And let me..." She digs in one of her pockets and fishes out a big bundle. "Twenty million more, one hundred thousand notes."

I can value these at their worth at the time of their printing, Bar remarks helpfully.

"...That will be very helpful. These are two months old. It'll be easier to figure if you change them for dollars."

$90.37 American, or a comparably increased amount of food.

Nod, nod.

"Great! Maybe you don't need to help me after all. Um, you definitely told me your name but I also definitely forgot it."

"Bella."

"Bella. Bella. Okay. If only I had a few hundred marks from a year ago. Oh well, don't look a gift horse in the mouth."

"Bar, I assume my money doesn't get staggeringly more valuable if you change it for her world's via economic miracle?"

It does not.

"Oh well."

"Nice try. Hey, hey, what other 'mon do you have? They're neat and - I'll just borrow a book about them if it's a bother."

"It's not a bother, I like showing 'em off! This one is Zag and he's a Linoone -" She pulls a ball off her belt and Zag disappears into it in a flash of red light. She replaces it on the line and grabs another. "This one's Dusk."

"Oooh. I like that color scheme. Hi, Dusk."

"Eon!" says Dusk.

"He's an Umbreon. All my 'mon are evolved - they used to be different kinds but they grew up. Zag used to be a Zigzagoon - I got him from my mom and she gave him a really uncreative nickname - and Dusk used to be an Eevee, which can evolve into a bunch of different stuff. Most things can only evolve into one thing, or maybe evolve twice, or maybe have one alternate branch path they can do, but Eevee can be a bunch of things."

"I know I already said this but these 'mon are really really not like animals. 'Evolve' is translating as 'change animals' but it means over a really long time the whole species changes, not individuals growing up. And it happens to plants and germs too."

"Huh, that's weird. Not all 'mon can evolve at all, I just got ones that could or did..."

She shrugs. "I know walkers and electricity, not biology. It's sort of neat that there are worlds that work so differently though."

"Yeah. It seems weird and sad that you don't have Pokémon but I guess that's just because I'm used to them." She scritches Dusk, puts him away, lets out a huge bird. "This is Rachis, she's a Pidgeot."

She flinches slightly. "Not an animal, it's a 'mon."

"So there's a decent amount of variety among them?"

"...yeah. Is there a problem, I can put her away -" She puts her away.

"I'm fine. Old scary stories about big birds, is all. Plus, bar's got impressive security apparently. I'll be fine."

"None of my others have feathers." She lets out a mammalian thingy. "Juu is a Mienshao."

That one gets a Look but no flinch. "Anything that isn't familiar is going to ping that a little, but they're interesting so no big deal. Hi, Juu."

"Shao," says Juu.

"Are 'mon all named after the sounds they make?"