"I needed a job and they were hiring," Darius answered, not bothering to pretend not to know what Barclay meant. His back was to Barclay, still filling the order, but it was easy enough to hear. "I'm pretty good with shops, so figured I'd look for a job in one. As for why they hired me, I think they liked the idea of someone who had no interest in rummaging through the restricted stock. I know how to do business taxes too, they already said I'm doing that when the time comes."
He finally spotted the caladrius feathers in a mason jar on top of the cabinet and grabbed a small stepladder to fetch it down. "Usually it works fine since I don't work alone, but they got hung up with something and asked me to open the store myself."
He laid the feathers on a small tray with the other ingredients. They always let the customer examine the reagents before they were rung up. Koan said it was to admire the quality, but Salem said it stopped the customers from bitching later when their spells didn't work. "We good?" he asked, gesturing to the set.