[Riverfall Location] Valkalah Academy

[Dex]

Dex shrugged at the first few jobs that that akalak offered, not knowing much about them. When he mentioned pest control, he have looked panicked around, wondering if they meant him. Then he realized that they meant the rats he'd originally came in about.

"Pest as in rats right? I can do rat control easy. Rats are good eating for ferrets. I'm good at hunting them, but I can't write. I don't know how to dust though, or to clean, except my fur. I don't have any idea how to clean these things."

Dex gestured to a bookcase, and pulled out something he'd heard called books. Every so often, he'd found a few on a shelf in the boat, but he'd never been able to read them. Opening to a random page, glancing at the gibberish, and then promptly putting it back in, he walked back to in front of the akalak.

"I could eat some of the rats, especially if you gave me the shi - mizas."

Really need to remember not to call them shiny things in front of people. Even if they were.

[Gossamer]

Dex The Akalak smiled, seemingly understanding more. "You're kelvic aren't you? Well, here's the deal. If you pest control - kill and eat the rats and mice and anything else that eat the books - I'll pay you three gold miza's a day. However, if you clean and learn your letters to copy the books, I'll almost double that to five a day. If your penmanship is neat and you can find you can handle writing then I'll make it six. I've had some kelvics work here, and they were excellent mimics of writing." The man said. His quirked eyebrow and body language all but asking Dex his thoughts. "And I'll need to know your name..." He added, almost amused.