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[Corwin]

"Show me something in the area of a hundred gold," Cedric requests.

[Dracos]

"Sure, Sure..."

Julius leads Cedric over to a nice looking horse.   "This would be 100 gold a week to rent."

Dracos

[Corwin]

Cedric frowns. "How about a horse that costs 25 gold a week?"

[Dracos]

"Well, if you want a pony...."  Julius points to a younger horse a few stalls down.

Dracos

[Corwin]

"Sure, I'll get one." Cedric inspects the horses in his stated price range, trying to find the least used one.

[Dracos]

They all look okay to your eye.  Nothing special.

Dracos

[Corwin]

"I'll take that one," Cedric says, pointing at one of the horses he'd inspected.

[Dracos]

"Sure, that'll be 25 gold for the first week with the rest due when you come back."  Honest julius lifted his hand.

Dracos

[Trunkyboy]

Luciano follows in Cedric's footsteps and rents a 25 gold a week horse, after also inspecting them and trying to find the best looking one.

[Corwin]

Cedric pays the man 25 gold, and takes the horse over to where Azen is waiting.

[Dracos]

Both Cedric and Luciano discover a rather disturbing observation when they reach for their gold bags: They are not there.

Dracos

[Trunkyboy]

Luciano frowns, opens his mouth to say something, closes it, and frowns some more.  "Um, I'll hold off on that horse for now."

Turning away, he begins thinking, where in the hell did he leave that bag?

[Dracos]

The adventurers realized that time was passing as they meandered about in Honest Lucius' Used Horse stables.  The fellow who was sitting outside is now gone.

Dracos

[Trunkyboy]

Luciano continues pondering where in the hell did he leave his gold while waiting for his compainions to snap out of their mysterious daze.

[Sunhawk]

Bran instinctively checks for his gold, meanwhile pondering something.  Per week?  Huh?