Darion figured that she had probably guessed they took coins from Valdenmoor.
She had seen the knights returning with heavy bags strapped across the horses during the ride back into Percvale. Even if nobody explained it directly, it wasn't difficult to put things together after watching an entire kingdom get raided in a single morning.
"I paid your mother," Darion said. "One thousand silver coins instead of the seven hundred we originally agreed on."
Seren nodded once.
She didn't look especially surprised by it. If anything, she looked like she had expected Darion to do something like that after seeing the outcome of the battle.
Without Vera's compounds, the attack on Valdenmoor would've failed completely.
Darion looked at Seren for a moment and then realized something.
They had never actually agreed on a price for her own work.
When he first brought her from Gonnb, he had only promised that she would be paid well for helping Percvale's farmland recover. That had been it.
