It stays bolted right here on this desk.”

Caroline looked at the green bills sitting beside the polished brass bracket.

“You need that money for your rent this month, Paige.”

“The lamp stays,” Paige said, tightening the desk clamp until the iron frame clicked into place.

“You can buy it back from me when our summer commercial contracts pay out.”

“That still leaves us short of the target,” Caroline said.

“Not after adding the fish market payment and my lamp deposit,” Paige said, writing numbers quickly across the margin of a blueprint.