"... There's some pawn shops. And some of the electronics stores in the Sixth will take wires if you find ones that work. Aside from that... sometimes you can get money for selling the metal bits." Granted, not all of the pawn shops have a legal license to sell guns... but that hasn't stopped some of them.

Maybe he shouldn't be telling her this. It would be competition, after all. But he can't help but feel bad for a little girl who looks like she has no one.

... As long as she's not a Strix. But there's nothing to indicate that... yet, at least. There's a little light in the room, and she hasn't flinched back from it, so she's... probably fine.