013. Yellow
Sakuya ran into the inn, clutching a bundle of cloth to her chest. There was a wide grin on her face as she hurried into her bedroom. She set the bundle down on her bed and picked up her ledger to take notes.
"Sakuya?" a pink-haired head peeked into the room. "Whatcha doing?"
"Come on in, Pia!" Sakuya waved for her friend to come closer. "I've got something here that's going to make me rich!"
"What is it?" Pia sat down on the bed.
Sakuya put her ledger under her arm and carefully unrolled the bundle, slowly pulling the cheap cloth off of the treasure inside.
"Ta-dah!" she said. Pia gasped.
"Are those golden Wooly furballs?" she asked.
Sakuya nodded. On her bed lay a small pile of wool, yellow as gold.
"Remember how I told you that I saw a golden Wooly in Privera Forest last week?" the Eastern girl explained. "Well, today I asked Micah to help me find it again, and there it was! So I sheared it!
"Just imagine," she continued, paging through her ledger. "Simply saying something's golden makes people want to pay more for it. But this really is golden! It could be worth hundreds, thousands… Maybe I could make my first million with this stuff! Woolies grow their wool back quickly, and I bet there are more of them around somewhere… And if it turns out to have magical or medicinal properties, then demand will skyrocket! I'll never be in the red again!"
"It's so soft!" Pia exclaimed, stroking the balls of wool.
"Hey, paws off of the merchandise!" Sakuya snapped.
Pia placed her hands in her lap and pouted.
Sakuya felt that she had been a bit harsh.
"Tell you what," she said. "When the golden wooly's had time to grow its wool back, you can come with me to go shear it again! You hug so tightly; it won't be able to get away."
"Yeah!" said Pia, immediately cheering up again. "I love Woolies!"