Plenty, [ he says, sincerely, ] but you won't be offering anything.
[ It's his cloak, his problem. Iorveth doesn't need to give up anything for him; Astarion couldn't bear if Iorveth grew to resent him because he had to make sacrifices. No — the bartering is on him.
Unfortunately, Astarion doesn't really have anything that the wizards at Blackstaff Academy would find worth bartering for. Pretty little trinkets, the kind that he enjoys collecting like a magpie, are worthless to a school for the arcane. He frowns. ]
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[ It's his cloak, his problem. Iorveth doesn't need to give up anything for him; Astarion couldn't bear if Iorveth grew to resent him because he had to make sacrifices. No — the bartering is on him.
Unfortunately, Astarion doesn't really have anything that the wizards at Blackstaff Academy would find worth bartering for. Pretty little trinkets, the kind that he enjoys collecting like a magpie, are worthless to a school for the arcane. He frowns. ]
Perhaps the loan will have to be more of a theft.