Annotated 21-12
Phil loved “The Swiggin’ Fist.”
This is an interesting plot we sorta cut off here, and I guess it counts as unplanned foreshadowing. Despite her now-enviable position, Bandit’s still low-key fending off her klepto impulses, and she wonders if the vicarious thrill of other people stealing might dull those pangs.
Hanging around with and abetting other thieves is clearly not an option if she wants to remain a Peacemaker. But after her Peacemaker days are over, running with the gang with whom she ends the series does seem to help silence her demons. Maybe part of the problem was that the Peacemakers were always trying to refashion the adventuring profession into part of the machinery of society, and she does her best work as an odd cog.
She’s truly just doing it for the thrill if the apples cost one dang Earth Cent.
… which is weird for different reasons.
Now you got me wondering how old a tradition is it to put the price of things on showcase.
I mean, when only so many people could even read, what’s the use of numbers when people don’t understand them?
“Mommy, mommy, what do those squiggles on the showcase mean?”
“We will cut your hands off if you take this.”
One can know how to read numbers without being considered “literate”. Heck, in some time periods one could be able to read and write his own native language well enough to be understood and still be considered illiterate because he didn’t know e.g. Latin. If numbers and symbols are useful to know, people will learn them. They already presumably know how to count, although arithmetic might be harder.
I think BM03 was wondering how many saphs are in 1¢
PLEASE CHECK ALL WEAPONS. “Yep, still got ’em.”