They can tell the difference. [Different varieties of acorns, you see.] The ones they use for currency are made, I think.

[Raven's comment draws him up short on anything else he might say on the subject of acorn finance. It chills his blood, despite the heat of the water around him. How often had he felt the same way? ...hard to remember now, with this particular foe. He knows he tried to kill Systems once, before he'd been ripped apart by him, and it's hard to recall that time when he was proud and vicious enough to try it. Because even with eleven years of distance between him and the act, many attempts to lay his demons to rest... if he were to see Systems again, Erik thinks he would flinch. The Portrait throws a shadow over his past comparable to Shaw's.

He looks away, one hand drifting under the water to briefly touch the scarring over his navel.]

It was a robot, but I appreciate the thought.