"I will probably be able to license some of them for money, yes! Do you have a bank account?"

"No, what's that?"

"It's a way to have money that you don't have to store as physical cash. I can send you whatever fees come in for the photos you took, but I don't know yet how much that will be, so I can't just hand you the money in cash."

"Hm, I could find you later?"

"- holding on to money for you that long would be inconvenient for me, because I am not a bank."

"Oh. I'm not sure how to get a bank account but I could try?"

"You'd go to a bank and open one, they can walk you through it."

"Okeydokes! How do I tell you when I do that?"

"Well, if you want to do it right now I can go with you and wait."

"That sounds good!"

Fika sets out to search for a place to get a bank account, marching in an arbitrarily chosen direction.

"I'm not sure there are any bank branches that way. Do you want me to look one up?"

"Oh. Yeah."

Fika didn't know banks were types of trees with branches. Maybe she can climb one.

He finds one and leads the way back into the city.

Fika follows, sometimes climbing, sometimes skipping, sometimes piggybacking along. Never walking tho'.

He's startled the first time she tries piggybacking but will tote her along agreeably once he knows what she's after.

Fika likes how tall Amentans are, even if it would be more fun if they also climbed.

Presently they arrive at a bank and he piggybacks her in and gets in line.

"This doesn't look like a tree branch at all."

Fika is a bit diss-apointed.

"- it's not a tree branch, it's a bank branch," says the photographer. "Hi! Fika would like a bank account."

"Hi, Fika," says the bank teller. "How much is your initial deposit?"

Fika has this much money left over from the clothes place.

"- okay, I'm going to get you the New Savers Super Simple account. It doesn't have a minimum balance, isn't interest-bearing, and it'll flag a possible error if you try to spend more than 50 tap at once, which you can bypass by logging in on your everything or coming here in person if that's more convenient."

"Why that one?"

"It's the kind of bank account that people opening their first account usually want; it's not complicated and does all the basic things you might want a bank account for if you aren't doing complicated things with loans or stocks or credit or anything. You can upgrade to a different account type later if you want."

"Oh, okay then."

Fika deposits her money in the bank.

And they want her photograph and fingerprints and voiceprint and then she can have a bank card (it's okay if she loses it, it doesn't contain secure information, it's just information about which account is hers) and the photographer can copy down her account number in case anything comes in for the photos she took.