" Why are you giving me money?”

“To show you how much you mean to me.” He picks one up and places it in my lap, then does the same with the next one. “You said that things in your world were valuable if they cost much mahnee. You are the thing that I love the most in this world, so I wanted to give you mahnee to show you that. "

― Ruby Dixon , Having the Barbarian's Baby (Ice Planet Barbarians, #7.1)