...she'll do healing free for the first couple people in order to establish that healing is even, like, a thing which exists and reliably works.

(Unless here it doesn't.)

(Ugh.)

How's Segda liking the city?

Segda finds everything really cool and sticks close to Iris staring around, although it does get into a mutually unintelligible shouting match when it tries to steal a fish off a fishmonger's counter.

"You can't do that."

"I'm hungry I want a fish GIVE ME FISH GIVE ME FISH I WANT THE FISH!"

"Nope." She picks it up. "We're going home."

"I'M HUNGRY YOU SAID FOOD AT YARISONG I WANT FISH -" Kick kick kick kick.

"Yeah, we're gonna buy dinner, but you don't get to steal things, so we're going home and then we're gonna buy dinner."

"I'M HUNGRY NOW WE'VE BEEN WALKING ALL AROUND I WANT THAT FISH."

She buys the fish and carries her out. "You can tell me 'I want that', you can tell the storekeeper 'I want that', you just can't grab it, you're going to keep on getting in trouble -"

Nom nom nom nom nom fish.

"If I keep lots and lots of food in our room, do you think you can just - go back there when you're hungry and not take anything that isn't yours -"

Segda makes a "mrrt?" noise.

"I can keep fish and eggs and other things you eat in the room. I can also give you spending money. If I do that, can you promise not to just grab things from people, it's not safe -"

"Spending money?"

"I don't know where I'm going to get it but I'll figure something out."

"Spending money?" repeats Segda.

"The way people get things from fishmongers is paying for it. You give them money, they give you fish."

"Money?"

She shows it some. "This."

...it bites a coin. It looks at her.

"If you give it to people sometimes they'll give you things. You'll have to learn the language to be very good at it but if you just - desperately want a specific fish - giving them this and then taking the fish will go better than not doing that."

"Why?"

"Because they sell the fish for money."

"Why do they do that?"

"Because they can trade the money for other things they need."