[ He hums, giving one another flip. One consequence of buying one's way into a trade at thirty instead of coming up as an apprentice, perhaps, is the inability to give immediate and instinctive answers to these things. Instead it is: twenty-eight hundred words in a workday means two hundred and eighty per hour, give or take, and this is how many pages, and that is how many words, and— ]

If it an emergency, I could do it in a day. Otherwise, working on it around this— [ he waves an apparently disinterested hand about at the assortment of annoying documents and depressing maps in the room ] —maybe five?

You would be looking at around [ reasonable static sound ] silver, for the paper and ink, and [ even more reasonable static sound ] for the labor, [ with a one-armed flex. ] Unless it is for something very noble or heart-wrenching.