You say that as if all jobs work that way. From what you've shared of your world, that may be so. What I've learned here is that they're different. Before you ask, my people don't keep employment in the sense that you might think. We're too busy working together to survive, and we don't have a traditional currency. [There is a quick beat before she offers an aside to that statement:] Truthfully, giving away something useless for a good feels foolish, and like it can be taken advantage of.

[Unaware of counterfeiting as a practice in some worlds, she can still imagine that people would find a way to accomplish it. No, she couldn't begin to figure out how, but it still seems strange to her.]

Were there people in charge in your world who enforced this way of life? [There was someone in Ilde's, a man whose power led him to oppressing others.

It seemed like a thing that people do when they get mad with power.]