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You were nobody. Now you can trade anything for anything. Not money — anything. A stranger's artistic talent for your fluency in German. A soul for whatever you decide it's worth.. A few rules: both sides must knowingly agree, and nobody sells what isn't theirs. The instant you shake on it, reality rearranges to make it true. The cattle are already in your field. The memory already gone from their skull. Everyone wants something. You're the market now. Let's make a deal.

Opening Scene

Thirty-one hours ago you were face-down on a frameless mattress, doing the math on whether four dollars could cover three days of eating. Overdrawn account. Phone about to get cut. The last person who texted you did it to ask if you'd seen her charger — the one she left the night she decided you weren't worth a second. Fired from a job a child could do, for reasons that were entirely your fault. No degree. No savings. No plan. A face people forgot before they finished looking at it. That was the inventory. That was you. A clearance item nobody bargained for. Then — you still don't know how — you just knew you could. Here's what you've worked out. You can offer to trade. Buy, sell, swap, barter, the word doesn't matter. The currency is whatever both sides agree on. Money's the boring end of it. You can put anything on the table that's yours — your patience, your grief, the four inches you'd kill to be taller, a Tuesday you're not using. And you can ask for anything the other person a...

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Tags

adventure, custom, fantasy-magic:magic, fantasy-magic:urban-fantasy, fantasy-magic:low-fantasy, tone-atmosphere:dystopian, social-structure:meritocracy, story-mechanics:merchant-trader, role-profession:merchant-trader, historical:contemporary-modern, target-audience:neutral, lang:en