[Aradia thinks he's just looking for excuses to keep ahold of her hand; she could navigate this just as well as he could, if she needed to.]
Not the way you're thinking of, no. Young trolls grow up on Alternia, and all the shops and stores that you can visit yourself are with the adults, way out on ships and in colonies. We get allowances, according to your place on the hemospectrum, and then you can use them with some of the drones left behind to assist, to get schoolfeed modules and what you can't find or make yourself. I never had enough to buy things I didn't desperately need, like hats, so I had to wait until I found one for myself in one of the ruins I was excavating.
[Now that she thinks about it, did she ever really tell him she's pretty much lowest of the low, where trolls are concerned? She doesn't think she has.]
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Not the way you're thinking of, no. Young trolls grow up on Alternia, and all the shops and stores that you can visit yourself are with the adults, way out on ships and in colonies. We get allowances, according to your place on the hemospectrum, and then you can use them with some of the drones left behind to assist, to get schoolfeed modules and what you can't find or make yourself. I never had enough to buy things I didn't desperately need, like hats, so I had to wait until I found one for myself in one of the ruins I was excavating.
[Now that she thinks about it, did she ever really tell him she's pretty much lowest of the low, where trolls are concerned? She doesn't think she has.]