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Still, starting right out of the gate with Sweetsalt seems like a bit much … especially considering that buyers looking for Sweetsalt will expect an entire loaf, and if you attempt to gift someone shavings off of a loaf of Sweetsalt, you risk looking cheap and giving insult. Now that you think about it, you would be better served buying the tobacco. You could further divide the pouches without looking like an ass in the process, and it will last longer than the Sweetsalt would … you think. You are not sure. Your entire experience with tobacco begins and ends with your poking around in that fraying snuff box last night.
Frustrated at the mere thought of that damned thing, and deciding that you have spent more than enough time on this, you decide to buy all of the available tobacco. With that settled, you haul all of your dry good purchases over to the counter, where the two clerks, and the other customer, who seems to just be standing around at this point, are. Looking down at your purchases with poorly concealed surprise, the elder of the two clerks, who you suspect to be the owner of this establishment, starts to speak, not to you, but to the younger clerk.
“Remind me to put a new order in with Oosterwegel’s.”
He looks up at you, presumably to ask if that is all, but you have already head back to the shelves, and are retracing your steps, collecting everything that you planned on purchasing. It takes several trips, and each time you return to the counter, the three men look more and more incredulous. By the time that you come back from the racks of clothes outside with everything you picked out earlier, one of them actually has his mouth hanging open. Surely, this cannot be such a large or outlandish order, can it? Finally, the elder clerk recovers enough to speak directly to you.
“What is your Master’s name, my dear?”
“W-what?”
“For his account, I need his name to know which account to charge this to. And of course, I am going to need some sort of authorization. A note or slip of some sort.”
“I –”
“Puella, I hope you understand that I mean no offense, none whatsoever, but I could not in good conscience - or sense, for that matter - mark down a charge a fourth of this size without some proof that this is what your Master asked for. Especially as I know for a fact you have never shopped here before. I <span class="mu-i">certainly</span> would have remembered.”
You can be a bit dense at times, but even you can understand that last bit. That said, he must really think you look like a freak to basically say as much right to your face. However, right now, you need to focus on this new hurdle. You are going to need to tread carefully here.
