[ He sighs. One day, Ash will remember that his brand of sarcasm isn't as common as it had been in New York. ]

I'm not really going to shake them down. The people in the shops are only going to steal your money with a bad deal or with big lies. If your purse is missing, it was somebody pretending to be a shopkeeper.

[ Reaching behind him, he scratched at the back of his nekc. ]

What was inside? An I.D. and the money from your world is going to be useless here, anyway.