[ okay. yes. maybe he would just break everything, but he could lug giant bags of ingots around or something? felix is just being the difficult one here. he crosses his arms, not impatient, but not yielding either. ]

Each of these coins entombs someone's very soul. I won't spend them frivolously.

[ he can just hoard them like a dragon until he figures out a way to reverse the soulforge process... someday. ...somehow. ]

Regardless, there's no reason to worry after me. Even if my strength is less reliable, I can defend myself.