-This may just be my pride talking, but let's save something like that for an emergency.

[ He smirks, because, even as he says it, he senses Rue might be the sort of person to think that the denial of something beautiful is in a sense a lesser emergency. But they've been practical this whole time, so he doesn't think they'll argue the point. He says it as he slides out his spoon ]

Seems to me that event between friends, matters of money ought be settled properly as much as they can. It's devaluing someone's talents otherwise.