Dayscrip

The hardest currency in Kin Arad's universe.

Backed by the Company, these notes trade on the usual basis of I promise to pay the bearer on demand. But the mode of payment is not so much the face value of the note in gold, nor anything as mundane and trivial.

Oh, no. The Company backs its notes of exchange in the medium of Extended Life. At any time you may trade in the contents of your bank balance for the equivalent number of Days to be added onto your life balance. This is why Dayscrip is so eagerly prized and why Kin Arad is 210 years old - she could afford to buy that amount of extended life.

There are several hundred checks and failsafes built into and around each note - this is one reason why nobody seriously tries to forge them. The other is that for every Day forged, the Company promises to redeem the counterfeiter's life with minus one day of extended life. And invariably does.

So when Jago Jalo appears with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of perfect forgeries, and this becomes known, confidence in the Company scrip starts to slump.

And Kin Arad travels to the source of the forgeries to find out what's going on...