"I guess...", Kit says, though she sounds a little uncertain. He thinks having those sorts of things all in one house- or palace, from the sound of it- are normal?

He does sort of have a point about the lack of use for gold here too. "Well, what if... what if something shows up that I dunno, eats gold, or something? I mean given that we're shrunk down to tiny size and living in a giant tree, anything can happen, right?" She admits that's kind of unlikely, but she's reluctant to give up the argument.