Anton looks over. "That's good with me."

He sighs. "Alright. One hour. See you soon!"

Mika begins the long walk to the Bank.

Unlike Mika, her foot does not have a bad case of rat tooth to the heel!

She runs home, gets the contract she knows her mother will sign written up, and about midway through actually mentions the offer to Mother. Fortunately, she was not mistaken any more than the first vision showed — Mother thinks she can find a buyer at market rates in not too long, she'll take the ring now for... nineteen thousand five hundred silver shields.

Tencednil would guess Mother could probably do twenty thousand silver shields and still make a reasonable profit, but they are kind of rushing for a buyer and it's mostly the other explorers who are losing out. And even then, if they had to find a buyer of their own who didn't really trust them and all that, it would most likely cost at least the fifty gold sails they're losing here. This way, everyone makes a profit and nobody's really complaining about it, so it's not fundamentally a betrayal of the shared endeavor. Contract: written up! 19500, split into four accounts, acceptable to party 1, signed here, conditional on a Truthspell, the accounts to be listed by parties 2, names here, one signed. All looks good, pretty much the same as the contract she remembers from the most recent vision.

She runs over to the bank, and... contract drafting takes time, but much less so when she knows exactly what she's writing. She gets there five minutes after the hour mark, and runs the last block so she shows up out of breath.

"Sorry, that took longer than I realized, writing things formally is slow. Here, take a look. Does this work for all of you? Signatures and account numbers go here."

Julio will read over Tencednil's contract closely. "This all seems to be in order."

He signs and hands it over to Anton.

Anton signs.

Mika skims through the contract himself, much faster than Julio, and signs.

Into the bank, then! Yes, she can read this under a Truthtelling, yes, she attests it is true under oath, etcetera etcetera. She tries to look about as tired as the others are, but the upside of them being tired is that if she slips a little they won't notice.

Then, after the ring of protection is deposited within the safebox, Tencednil is 4,870 silver shields richer.

Mika catches the last channel at the top of the hour. He comes out of the room looking perfectly healthy. "Much better!"

"Oh good! Do be careful and eat well for the next few days, you know full well a channel doesn't patch disease. If you need a hand with something, this is at least a bit my fault, if you leave a letter at the bank here with my account I should get it soon enough." An excuse to see the otyughs might be useful, if those really are going to be as much of a problem as the first vision implied. "If you don't need it, have fun, go do something nice for yourself with the money!"

Once they're done...

She needs a two hundred gold sail deposit anonymously. The bank will take a chunk of onyx as a deposit and buy it back for about 28, which means 7 chunks plus a small additional deposit. She'll need some extra anyway, so call it fifty shields or so to go with the onyx? That's not an unreasonable amount of weight. Onyx is incredibly compact for its value, so everything she needs should fit nicely in a small envelope.

She goes down to the nearest component store. They're selling onyx at 292 shields a chunk right now. Reasonable, though this will be painful. She writes up a contract for seven pieces, signs, and runs it down to the bank. She withdraws an additional 70 shields while she's there, some of which will go to ingredients for the plan, but most of it for the deposit. Over two thousand one hundred shields gone from her account, more money than she had ever had at a time before the visions.

Tomorrow she can get all the paperwork in. It's too late to find children on the streets today.

KORVOSAN CARRIER
STARDAY, DESNUS 30th, 4708

SCANDAL AT HOUSE GREY, SECRET HEIR REVEALED

The weather worsens. Rain pours in loud sheets. The sky crackles with lightning. Three ships delay setting off until the storm passes. Gemshare Jewelers is robbed by an expert. The value of the stolen goods exceeds ten thousand silver shields. Archbanker Darb Tuttle sells a regenerate.

Her first step the next morning is preparing a good disguise. The first time she tries, the shadow buzzes at her and points out places it can see her skin, and every time she tries to fix it she fails. A second time, this one slower, and she's got something at least good enough that it can't easily see through her. In all, that took about an hour.

Second, she Prestidigitates a padded envelope, which can hold the onyx and the shields without clinking. Some paper, some practiced and fast writing out of a simple contract with a small vial of ink she bought yesterday and which only the shadow has ever touched, and she's ready. She was expecting this to be slow, but apparently today the shadow's spheres contain... some kind of shaped grooves which make quick writing substantially easier? Still mysterious, but very convenient. (Fine, perhaps having Prestidigitation is worth not having Dancing Lights. It's still disappointing.)

She does this on her way down to Old Korvosa, where the bank branches have less staffing and keep less of an eye on anyone strange who walks by. Once she's there, she takes out some of the candies she bought yesterday, Prestidigitates them new, shinier wrappers, and walks around near the bank looking for some humanspawn playing on the street. The cityfolk have to let their children out regularly, and Old Korvosa's streets aren't typically that dangerous if you don't seem to have money. Shiny candy will draw an eye, and she knows how to look approachable.

One of the children on the street does indeed come over. "Ooh, what's that? Can I have some?"

"It's my candy! ...But you can have this one piece, if you really want." She holds out two for a moment, before snatching one back.

"Only one?" Pout.

"...well, alright, I guess I can give you another. But I got it by promising to do a job for Daddy, so if you want part of the candy you need to do part of the job."

A little wary. That sounds dangerous. "What part?"

"You have to..." She pauses, as if considering. "You have to go and take this in to the person at the counter! And then you can come right back out."

"...okaaaay, I guess." That doesn't soooound suspicious.

Grab the package! (It's a little heavy, but not very.) Run inside! Package on counter! (There's not much of a line here. The banker puts the package aside for after the current customer, but gets to it soon enough.) Run outside!

"Candy now?"

"Fiiine, candy now. I guess you can have two pieces." And, indeed, two pieces of candy.

The first letter in the package said to immediately Chant a copy of the rest of the paperwork, as it would disintegrate within forty-five minutes of delivery. For this, it offered one shield from the shields in the envelope. The rest, and the onyx, it says to use to create a new Bellaso-secured account, with a key sentence Tencednil generated yesterday evening. The onyx is to be immediately liquidated, at standard Bank of Abadar prices, and the resulting funds along with all but three shields of the remaining coinage from the initial deposit are to be placed into the same parlay bet on the Breaching Tencednil made herself in the vision, to a limit of one thousand gold sails at each step.

The shields left over whether the bets are successful or not are to be held as funding for Scrivening future communications to this account. Any further instructions will be delivered in the same way, so the funds are supplied to ensure the Bank never needs to lose a letter without requiring every future messenger to honestly carry a shield. This shouldn't be needed. If the visions are correct, and they certainly seem to be, this account should soon hold a somewhat absurd sum of money. It would, however, be incredibly suspicious to not have any plan for that case, and she wants suspicion to fall on this account only after the Breaching. Ideally it would only attract internal scrutiny after she's prepared the letter to the King, but that would be strange to include in this packet. It also would have taken far too much extra time to write if she had to encode everything, and she didn't have time to practice the conversion. Using her seemingly prophetic reputation will have to wait until the Breaching is over and she actually has it.

With that all done, she goes back home to remove her disguise and not be too obvious about running around the city earlier than usual. That was still a slow process, but Mother is as nocturnal as she can manage, so she might overlook it entirely. Even if she doesn't, asking about the details of what Tencednil, or any family member, was doing with their time would be unusual behavior.

While getting out of her disguise, she notices her spells seem to have changed.

She has a new cantrip and a new first circle spell! The cantrip is transmutation and feels like movement. The first circle spell is necromancy and feels like weakness.

Testing the weakness spell seems like a bad idea, especially on herself. The cantrip... is still not Dancing Lights. Why. Maaaybe it's minor Leviate? That should fit into a cantrip, Levitate properly should be catchable. Fine.

What happens if she... tries to pick her hammock up off the ground with it?