Great writing! I've enjoyed it so far.
However I think there might be some coding issues in the game. At first the money was 500 tisyels, but after making 2 balms for a customer (forgot his name, sorry) and getting paid, the money turned to 100, and after discussing with Ophelia and Ezra, it said you earned around 34 tisyels and the money just turned to 34. I think you might want to add it up instead of setting it to the value?