And Shep laughed, a dopey little laugh that he had hardly ever uttered in his entire life.

"Oh no, I couldn't possibly do that. You'd do all sorts of things with the money that would really help me, I'm sure, but then I'd have no idea what you did and so I'd still be really confused. Then what would I do with all my other bags of money?"

Shep blinked a number of times, and laid his hand against the side of his head in thought.

"...could you help me with those too?"