"But like... what is it for, ultimately? Is there a treasury or something that...?" She's trying to put this in the context of how money works back home; the government wants you to spend it so they can in turn either hoard it or waste it on the military. So... how can something as intangible as Lore be useful when the person in charge is a fox with enough magic to effortlessly kidnap people between universes?

With a sigh, she mutters, "I guess it's as arbitrary as taking pieces of paper or bits of metal and assigning value to them. It's just... going to take some getting used to. How would you check your balance? If you're buying groceries and don't have enough, do you just... talk to the cashier until you do? That hardly seems sustainable."

But then, most economies don't, so it's probably for the best to drop it. "Forget it; I guess I should get used to not asking too many questions about how this place works, huh?"