"That's fair enough. I'll come by later in the morning, then. Should I leave you to it?"

Everyone seems to have finished eating at this point. "I think so, apologies if there's a point of manners I'm ignorant on here."

"I'm sure if providing a house to foreign strangers but not letting them leave except under guard was common, we'd have etiquette of hospitality for it, but no, thankfully that's too rare for you to offend anyone. I'll see you tomorrow."

Sheppard chuckles at the joke. "Until then."

And once he's left Sheppard switches languages again and talks to his team. "Rodney, you're coming with me tomorrow, assuming that's alright with you and Ronon. How about you try to settle down soon I know you're not the best with early mornings. I'm pretty sure Teodor isn't going to double cross us but he's also not in charge so I want to keep to the buddy system."

"S' fine with me. None of those sounded exciting anyway."

"I suppose there might be interesting things at this market and regarding this living ice tower. Am I allowed to pull out the scanner or are we still keeping our toys hidden?"

"We've been open about having technology they don't but let's ask first before scanning stuff. They might be sensitive about it. If we have time in the morning you can take a baseline here might interesting to see if it can pick up this magic stuff."

"Good point, we wouldn't want to get the terrifying ice witch woman mad at us."

The team sets about winding down and preparing for bed. They agree on watches but they are as planned fairly discreet about it. And then it's morning. Do the staff seem inclined to make breakfast?

Breakfast? In this century?

They do set out a pot of herbal tea when the team gets up, though.

The team will eat some granola and plan to eat heavier at lunch. The tea is nice, is it caffeinated?

That is the local custom, yes. The tea is not, caffeinated tea or coffee are luxuries imported at great distance from Grand Cathay or Araby.

Then Rodney will mutter imprecations and swallow a small caffeine pill.

And the morning will be uneventful until Teodor shows up.

"Good morning. Anything amiss overnight?"

"No problems at all. The beds were nice too."

"Then I have no reason to wait before heading out."

"Before we go, Rodney has a scanning device, it's not magical but I'm also not sure if there's any etiquette about using such things."

"...Depends if it looks like a weapon or some kind of enchanted trinket or something else. Give me a look?"

Rodney opens his somewhat lighter backpack and pulls out a device.

It definitely doesn't resemble a weapon.

"More like a small book than anything, though the glowing surface is a little uncanny." And he doesn't see more than faint traces of Winds in it, though the Azyr is a surprise and it's more overall than a book or weapon would normally have.

"Be careful about pointing the narrow side at anyone, but I think it should be fine."

"I'll just be careful how I hold it then." He taps a few times at the device and then a few more. "You might be interested to know that there's several exotic sorts of radiation at levels I've never seen before here. Either that means there's something weird neither of us were expecting or it means that my device can detect these kinds of yours."

"I suppose that's optimistic for you being able to study it." And a little suspicious, but only a little. "Can you see the difference between the two of you and me?" 

Rodney plays with the device a bit more. "Yes, you seem to have a higher concentration of whatever I'm detecting than we do. Is that what you meant by us having, ah, fainter souls is I think the words you used?"