<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/S37YC.jpg)</div><br/>Brea waited till Scar was gone, and she didn't have to wait long.  Then deciding to get up and see what his payment was, she takes the small canvas satchel over to her bed.  She knows that Kald is going to expect a cut of the coins tomorrow.  There's no way that Scar's grunts and groans of pleasure weren't heard by those below.  Likewise she knew the fat barkeep would have seen her leaving with the soldier and would expect a part of the coin as his cut.<br/><br/>Dumping the coins out on the bed she sighed as the sight of many copper coins filled her vision.  A single silver coin sat among the small pile of copper, dashing hopes that this would be a good pay day for her.  Likely there was no more than two and half silver's worth of copper coins, plus the single silver piece.<br/><br/>But then a glint caught her eye in the pile.  She pushed the copper coins aside and leaned over to pull the candle he'd lit close.  Then she puzzled as the orange colored gemstone became exposed.  It was absolutely ancient, she didn't know how she knew, but she knew.  It was old and looked as if it might have cracks running through it, but it was carved, etched.  Strange scrawling script ran across it and it had to be valuable, simply because of the etching, worth more than the pile of coins at least.