"Ordered a coat," X answers automatically. Then he realises he's answered the Fool, not the tailor -- the Fool picked up! -- and quickly goes on. "I think you have, at least. Someone's brought me a magnificent coat, and now they're asking to be paid. I'm... I'm almost sure it wasn't me, and you were the first one I thought of."

The first one currently in Aifaran, anyway. There was a moment, when X first saw the unexpected package in the tailor's hands, that his heart leapt with the idea that his wife found a way to spoil him across dimensions. He was wrong, of course, and knew that right away, and things continued working as unfairly as they always did.

"I offer payment plans," says the tailor.

"Yes," says X with a smile. "I'm sure you do."