I’ve never seen the movie, The Neverending Story

so, a fantasy universe where if someone saves your life, you owe them a blood debt, but it’s commutative, transferable, and financialized, so if you save a life, that person now owes the debt, and people who save a lot of lives can bundle and sell their blood debts on the open market

The old wizard pulls a crystal sphere from his overstuffed cupboard, blowing the dust off, and then rubbing it clean with his sleeves.

“I haven’t had to boot this thing up in years”, he says, popping the ball into a cradle next to an old CRT monitor and operating it like a trackball