"Might as well get some good out of it, right? I did the same thing at The Pie Hole - that's my shop. Can't get the fruit any fresher than after I've touched it." It had good for him, too, in ways other than financial. Had been, he now realizes, the first in a long and ongoing series of tiny steps towards accepting his powers. His ability to touch dead things back to life had taken so much from him; it was only right that he should use it to take something back, even if it was only money.

From the sound of it, Meyer knows quite a lot about business for someone his age. That, coupled with his earlier skepticism about schools, and what he'd said about being partners with Charlie for some time, makes Ned even more curious about his life.

"I'll say. Luckily for me, most people don't need much convincing when it comes to pie. So... why cards?"