"Rent is lame," he agrees, though he's rarely actually paid it. Lately, sure, though Ren handles most of the business end of things at the school, and he just crashes there when he isn't with Krav. The Bureau included room and board, the adventurer's lifestyle was more about camping someplace and occasionally coming up with scratch for the inn, and he'd owned the show-wagon outright in ways he now realizes he probably owes to Lucretia.

And before that? Well, he and Lup did scrape rent together while they were studying. Sort of. Life in the caravans had been easy, by comparison.

It's this last thought that he follows. "There's some satisfaction to be had in the everybody pitch the fuck in and we probably won't die system." It's just that it's a hard one to game. Bah.