"Yes, yes, I'm teasing." He checks the angle of the sun. "Do you want to come with me to the restaurants? I should be able to find my way there on my own."

"Do we get free samples if we come?" asks Kiv.

"I can probably work something out. Uamok explained how the magic works, that you can't keep leftovers for more than a day after the casting?"

"Yeah, we'd eat it right there," Zoi agrees.

"All right. Let's go see who wants some magic, then."

They can start with the three restaurants from the day before.

They would all like more and here's his extra from the one who didn't have all the cash on hand.

He can do that - he's still inclined to favor the raffle place, if she wants a second casting, but what's the money side of things looking like?

She's also winning on money, by a slim margin. He has lots.

'Lots' is a nice amount of money to have. She can have a second casting if Uamok and her mates can have samples from it.

Sure, she can do that! Uamok gets her favorite organ to have raw and the boys want the particular cuts of muscle they prefer.

And now he has one casting left; he'll try to find a fourth restaurant for it.

He can find one that's heard about the raffle idea and wants to copy it!

Sounds good!

There's a little bit of time left in the day, if they want to do anything else - also does the school run every day, or do they have weekends off here?

It's every day, though obviously people can miss days if they're sick or something.

He'll want to take days off from time to time; he'll talk to the head teacher about it tomorrow. For now - is there anything they want to suggest doing with some of this money he has?

"You could go to a museum," suggests Uamok.

"Sounds like fun. Did you have one in mind?"

"I like the science museum," says Kiv.

"There's a reenactment village," Zoi says, "and a bunch of history museums."

"And art, if you like art," says Uamok.

"Those all sound like fun. I think I'd like to see the reenactment village first, though."

"I think a lot of the performers actually live there," Zoi says, "so they're open late - I assume they have plumbing hiding somewhere but still -" And he provides directions, which involves a train ride.

Hopefully the train will be a little less eventful this time than his first ride.

Word has gotten around; he gets stares but not quite so much attention.

"So how do you find out where the train goes," he asks Zoi once they're settled in the train car, "if you don't already know?"

"You buy a route map at one of the bigger stations."

"I'll have to see about finding one of those, then."