"How easy-going! I like to browse, too. But my uncle says I have to keep an eye on everybody who comes in, so I hope you don't mind my staring. We don't have cameras, see, and we're quite a mess...."
Which wasn't even a lie; the real shopkeeper had let them requisition the use of his shop on the condition that nothing was to go missing. When Inga had asked what she should do if someone tried to haggle, he'd ignored her. Have them pay full price and hope his regulars didn't come in, she supposed, but she couldn't help but think that he'd rather overestimated her ability to keep her eye on the innumerable and haphazard piles of stuff lying around the shelves. Thankfully, customers had only been coming in one at a time, when they came in at all, so she only had to keep an eye on a person.
"I'll tell you a secret, though!" She lowered her voice and cupped her hands around her mouth. "I'm not allowed to haggle."
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Which wasn't even a lie; the real shopkeeper had let them requisition the use of his shop on the condition that nothing was to go missing. When Inga had asked what she should do if someone tried to haggle, he'd ignored her. Have them pay full price and hope his regulars didn't come in, she supposed, but she couldn't help but think that he'd rather overestimated her ability to keep her eye on the innumerable and haphazard piles of stuff lying around the shelves. Thankfully, customers had only been coming in one at a time, when they came in at all, so she only had to keep an eye on a person.
"I'll tell you a secret, though!" She lowered her voice and cupped her hands around her mouth. "I'm not allowed to haggle."