[After a page or two of notes were filled, a small sigh could be heard.]
Thank you, Mr. Pence! I don’t think I would have been able to figure out how this phone works alone, fahaha! You said you worked in loaning, right? How does that work?
-❄️
Several minutes of patient explanation have concluded.
||anon asks||
"Happy t' help, stranger," he sighs, a smile in his tone. That is, until he has to answer 'loaning.'
"..Yes, I'm the Royal Treasurer, and I saw it prudent to open the treasury to the public as a means of redistribution. Seemed obvious to me, if you remember the Crash that is." He trails off bitterly, "Everything came with a price, so I came with a delayed price. Call me cruel if you want, but I made a choice. It doesn't hurt me or Lord Swatch to allow loans from the reserves, which served nothing where they were."
He's kind of lost the point-
"This isn't the first time I've dealt in loans or economy either, so don't you worry 'bout a thing. I lent to popups and addisons at my last job; never lost a client. Even Unc-"
He stops...
"Even my previous business partner paid it back... So I finance his cause out of my own pocket..." he says, a man holding back tears.
"Cuz I haven't paid him back yet..."
:the connection is expiring:
:would you like to redial?:
















