Steel manages to visible herself during this explanation. Success, she lights, I could tell that was me, and not your invisibility wearing off.
"That seems like it would work. It sounds familiar now that you describe it, but I've only ever heard of such a thing in terms of merchants exchanging goods with each other. Merchant A gives merchant B his cargo of wheat in the fall right now since it will rot soon if he doesn't sell it, and next spring merchant B gives merchant A the agreed-upon price, slightly higher than it would have been if he had the money ready in the fall."
Steel comments, I'm not sure how well it would work for people not familiar with the practice, or for smaller amounts of money than an entire ship's worth of grain.
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"That seems like it would work. It sounds familiar now that you describe it, but I've only ever heard of such a thing in terms of merchants exchanging goods with each other. Merchant A gives merchant B his cargo of wheat in the fall right now since it will rot soon if he doesn't sell it, and next spring merchant B gives merchant A the agreed-upon price, slightly higher than it would have been if he had the money ready in the fall."
Steel comments, I'm not sure how well it would work for people not familiar with the practice, or for smaller amounts of money than an entire ship's worth of grain.