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[a long pause, here. and then she kind of coughs a bit.] - ah, it's working?

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...Um, yes... hello. [clears her throat.] This is Asano Rin. You can leave a message if you need.

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[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

You say that like I've got options.

[payback.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming your friends here haven't just been woolgathering while all this has happened.

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

[sore subject, Rin. Sam goes quiet.]

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[A brief pause.]

... Can you work your price off?

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

...Haven't asked. I was forty-six thousand. Don't know if anyone's offered to buy me back either.

[payback.livejournal.com]

Madara might be factoring room and board in. If he'd consider something like that.

[A pause; forty-six thousand is an amount of money that's hard for Rin to conceptualize.] How much would you make here, if you were a free man getting paid?

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

Six or seven dollars an hour, since most people don't tip here.

[payback.livejournal.com]

[A pause. That's much less than she makes, even as an attendant, which seems off - and can't do figures that swift in her head, but she knows that would be a hell of a long time paying off forty-six thousand dollars, even if Madara wasn't taking room and board out, which he might be. Which is still assuming he'd consider letting same work off his price in the first place and doesn't have other reasons for keeping him.]

... Do you know-know that's what your wage would be? Or is it just what the wage for tending bar is like other places, without tips?

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

That's what it is for other places.

[payback.livejournal.com]

... So, what's your schedule?

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

Depends, but I work five or six days out of seven most weeks.

[payback.livejournal.com]

How many hours?

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

Lookin' out for me now?

[payback.livejournal.com]

Is it a problem? Can I not make an estimate?

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's fine. Just somethin' to notice. [not unkindly]

I'd say I work full-time. Forty hours a week or more.

[payback.livejournal.com]

I'm hardly looking out for you. I'm just crunching some numbers.

So say five days a week. Eight hours a day. Forty times six... two hundred forty a week.

`[A somewhat tense pause. That's not good.]

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

Honestly, at that rate I'm not even savin' him enough money to be worth the buy in the first place.

[payback.livejournal.com]

Sam I really think you should ask him what his wage for you would be if you were free, I'm making more than double that and I'm just an attendant.

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

All right. I'll ask.

[payback.livejournal.com]

Ask him about working it off too. It might be possible, at least to contribute to buying your own freedom. Maybe he'd make up some kind of plan with you. It can't hurt to ask.

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Can't hurt.

[payback.livejournal.com]

[A small hesitation, there -] And I don't know if there's anything I can do, but...

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

You don't have to.

[payback.livejournal.com]

But if I can.