"Yep. Anything that substantially disturbs the natural environment will affect the paths."

"In predictable ways?"

"Not always. Humans reshaping the land almost always destroy all the paths on it. A fire that levels all the plant growth will tend to destroy all the paths too. Anything else is more unpredictable."

"Do you do controlled burns to avoid big fires?"

"Can't start a fire fast. Or at least we don't know how."

"Sometimes people are slow, though, right? To have kids or do magic?"

"Yeah. They could start a fire if they wanted to though the debt you'd incur would be really, really dangerous."

"If you have little fires on a routine basis, there's less accumulated fuel for a big one to get going."

"That makes sense but the debt system is stupid and if you destroy some things to prevent some future larger uncertain destruction it just counts as you having destroyed some things."

"Maybe you could slow down a human to do your forestry? I'm not sure if the cost-benefit works out though."

"Might depend how competently we can identify things to burn and how on board the local fairies are. It's an interesting idea, though."

"I don't currently know anything substantial about fire management, the German climate as pertains thereto, or local faeries as likewise, but I do seem to be able to conjure reference materials from the future, so."

"Maybe some people will want to trade for them once they have currency to trade with."

Wag wag wag. "You know what we didn't do, we didn't name the coins."

"We didn't! We should. Something memorable."

"They're... made of synthetic garnet? Their pattern was produced using Beecritter's Computer Aided Design Studio 6? They will revolutionize the faery economy?"

"You made them."

"I can't exactly name them after myself!"

"It's very tragic. Are there any interesting or notable words for currencies in the future -"

"I mean, there are names for the various kinds - the denominations, and classes of currency like 'fiat' or 'crypto'? Is 'fiat' a good name?"

"I think it's an amazing name but I might not be our intended audience. - on the other hand, maybe they'll get curious and learn something."

"We could poll the courts!"

"That'll help them repay us, too, a question we ask everyone in the courts and sincerely want all of their answers to."

Wag. "Good, good."

"If we can come up with a bunch of other questions we might want to survey everyone about, we could let all the courts that don't have humans pay that way. It'll speed everything up."