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Chapter 7 - 7. Time to make some money as a bard,and money ventures.

After the school ended she didn't return home like she usually did,instead she turned toward town, venturing through bustling streets and panicking average awareness desperate for a deal eventually she found the bards square, its not the actual name but its where most bards go to try to scrape a coin or two like earth's street performers, but she settles in at the fountain,guitar in hand, at first no tune comes to mind, no song befitting her emotions. 'Fine, if no tune fits I will make my own tune.' With that, her fingers move slow, the tune starts, as if a peal of thunder is struck, it makes several pause in their travels, especially as the tune flows, encoding a somber feeling, as if it should storm rather than be sunny and warm, it flows like a raging storm, making one imagine flashes of lightning and the boom of thunder. Unbeknownst to V, several bards had packed up and left, and coins, both copper and silver slowly make a small pile at her feet as she plays, her tune drowning out all the other bards in the square, loud and powerful, echoing throughout the market square and this bards square like a true storm. She let her fingers and emotion play for about 5 minutes but in that time, she had earned more than her family had in months from selling vegetables, granted most of it had been spent patching her up for various reasons, but the earnings here more than makes up for it. When she finally opens her eyes, she sees several standing around her, some seeming with somber tearful eyes, though it was more meant to be a tune of chaos and rolling fury. "Thanks for listening!"she gives a swift bow before scooping up her earned coin and counting as she vanishing swiftly into bustling crowds. '3 silver, 37 copper, good lord we only made twenty copper in the last 2 months selling fruits and vegetables...looks like I need to start getting into some business here and get some proper cash flow going...especially for when I turn 12 and need to start focusing a lot on on material to help increase my odds and my friends odds of awakening.' She thinks,quickly departing to home, the first thing she does is toss half the copper on the dining table in front of her father's dinner plate before moving to wash up and join them at the table, earning some odd looks.

"I uh...I earned some coin in the bards square...?" She still has her dad giving her a look, but by now he knows how she is, so he simply accepts the money putting it in the family coin purse. "Ya know you could've kept everything you earned, we would never ask you to give it up." Her mother says taking V's hand. "I know, but if it weren't for me getting banged up from hunting we would have more money for hard times, so take it and know that I give it now so we all have better lives later." V says a quote she favored and coined herself in her past life, she had always focused on family when it came to earning a better future, but she won't fail like she did last time, so with that, she finishes dinner with her parents before pulling out her sketch and note book, running ideas of how to make quick money or money in general, and all the vises people enjoy.'let's see, I don't plan on selling out, alcohol in this world has a pitiful alcohol content,and tastes more akin to bull piss than anything she drank on earth...that's a good avenue...oh moonshine, while getting the stills up and running right costs a bit, I could make high proof liquor in a months time and if I double still it I can sell it as an awakened alcohol as well,so...at the going rate..." She starts making plans having to do a great deal of mental calculations and how much coin it will cost to get her little business off the ground, eventually she reached her verdict, 15 silver, just for the stills, 38 copper for the yeast and sugar, another 20 copper for the custom glass jars for advertisement, but if it works she could maybe sell a single pint jar at 2 silver a pop at an establishment, which they can then charge by the shot and earn much more than the loss for high content alcohol, and if she can make it flavored like back home, then she could get half a city shit faced for half a silver coin a month or expand and produce more to export later but for now, small sells is her goal.welp, that'll be her new routine in the evening now, bards square to earn a small fortune to soon take all of the piss brewers out of business.

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