Considering his options,  Valen decided to follow Sharille first. He could take the stones to the merchant later, with the 1 he had taken up earlier and the 15 he had found now, he felt he should be able to sell those 15 and keep 1 of them for his own personal study still. All in all a fair haul, perhaps he might even see if the merchant had more such strange curiosities. He would be selling these stones for a smaller price than before when he got to it, he recalled from the promise, but a promise was a promise and he was going to be a man of his word.<br/><br/>He might not always follow law to the letter, but he believed in following it at least to the spirit of things. Once he left, he'd see what he'd do with the last stone, but that was still far in the future it felt. He just wished that he could cover his debt and the 'interest' with all this then. Nonetheless, it had become quite interesting and quite quickly.