"Oh, is that so?" Daniela’s grin only grew sharper, her eyes glowing with sudden inspiration. "From now on, I’ll bring you every ‘boring shiny’ thing I find-" she started, then abruptly paused, her head tilting. "Or wait… let me show you right now."
Before the Duke could even respond, she was already moving, rising in a fluid motion and buzzing off with a burst of restless energy.
She was gone only a moment.
Then, with a rush of air, she was back, reappearing just as suddenly as she had left, a worn wooden box clutched in her hands. It landed with a solid thunk on the table before him. "There," she announced brightly, pushing the lid open.
Inside was a chaotic little hoard. Coins of different sizes and colors, clearly foreign. Old keys of all shapes. A handful of odd electronic devices, their purpose unclear to her; they had once made funny sounds, but now nothing. Plain rings. And nestled among them, a few watches, sleek and far finer than the rest, though she seemed entirely unaware of their true value.
Daniela leaned over it, utterly pleased with herself. "My collection of boring shiny and not-so-shiny things," the redhead hummed as she dug into the box, clearly not done showing it off.
"Oh, here," she said, picking up two coins. "There are quite a few of these, actually. Gold and silver… it says ‘2 Euro,’" she read aloud, the word Euro rolling curiously off her tongue. She set the coins face-up on the table.
"This one says España… so I think it’s from Spain," she added, sounding oddly pleased with herself. Then she rotated the second coin, reading the engraving carefully. "Liberté… Égalité… Fraternité," she recited in fluent French. "French… obviously." The youngest Daughter glanced up at the Duke with a grin. "I’ve been finding more and more of these over the years… in the bags of outsiders," she continued. "Not just these—smaller ones too."
She shrugged lightly. "Ah, well. They’re not that interesting, and I have no use for them… You can have everything in here," the youngest Dimitrescu said, as if it were nothing at all. "It’s just taking up space in my room anyway."
"So…" Daniela began, gesturing to the things the Duke had given her, "how much is all of this going to cost me?" As if money were ever an issue for her.