Gavin nodded, satisfied with her rebuttal. It seemed she did know a thing or two about running her business and that eased his mind for potential contracts in the future. It was one thing to be good at producing the goods but another to be good at that along with properly marketing yourself and handling the financial side. He was even more impressed since it sounded like she did everything on her own and didn't have a handy dandy Karl of her own. Jesse was definitely not from the upper class of his era, that he could tell even without looking into her.
As she counted her cash, Gavin lifted the lid of the box and smiled at the little item. Trusting it wasn't a set up of some sort, he plucked it up between thumb and index finger and held it up to further inspect it. He assumed the intricate pattern was more functional and how it operated rather than for aesthetics but Gavin appreciated it all the same. So many crafters over the centuries only had functionality in mind and didn't take the extra step into artistry. Jesse was an artist and he could see the pride she took in her work. She was worth her asking price, perhaps more if it worked as intended and Gavin didn't doubt that it would.
"Exquisite work, Jesse. Did it end up as a single target or were you able to maintain the small radius requested?" He didn't need to wipe out an entire block but a room or two, or even his whole home if needed would be handy since invading mages always seemed to travel in packs. On the flipside of that, he had been known to invade their little covens--or whatever they called themselves nowadays--in the past when he was bored so perhaps that was more where he drew from for the idea that they were pack creatures.
As she counted her cash, Gavin lifted the lid of the box and smiled at the little item. Trusting it wasn't a set up of some sort, he plucked it up between thumb and index finger and held it up to further inspect it. He assumed the intricate pattern was more functional and how it operated rather than for aesthetics but Gavin appreciated it all the same. So many crafters over the centuries only had functionality in mind and didn't take the extra step into artistry. Jesse was an artist and he could see the pride she took in her work. She was worth her asking price, perhaps more if it worked as intended and Gavin didn't doubt that it would.
"Exquisite work, Jesse. Did it end up as a single target or were you able to maintain the small radius requested?" He didn't need to wipe out an entire block but a room or two, or even his whole home if needed would be handy since invading mages always seemed to travel in packs. On the flipside of that, he had been known to invade their little covens--or whatever they called themselves nowadays--in the past when he was bored so perhaps that was more where he drew from for the idea that they were pack creatures.
