"I've healed up people who got hurt during self-defense practice? But not much apart from that. And I don't know how many wizards is the usual number, they said in school we had more than any other country but I think that was probably something the Asmodeans made up so that we'd look better. Back home we had maids and such for tidying and they weren't wizards or anything, but my mother handled anything that left a stain. —Uh, she had cantrips but not first-circle spells."

"I know Bar assigns doctors based on expected cases but I'm not sure if that's enough? We get people with animalcule diseases, spiritual diseases, stopped hearts, pregnancies, unwanted implants, and so on. Sometimes there's complicated procedures they get periodically at home which they also need here. Anyway, Bar has access to alchemical goods for stains and if there's stains she wants cleaned she'll probably give them out. I don't think I've seen wizards cleaning here yet."

"Yeah, I don't know how to deal with any of that, except healing up someone who just gave birth. If you don't have to be a wizard I can do cleaning, and then... sell spells to the people here to pay for food? Or something?"

"Might be viable? I'd start with selling the chains, they probably have any value and then you wouldn't have a pile of chains lying around. You could also try going home with someone else, if you meet someone interested. – Not me. When I open my door I expect all Hell will break loose."

Blink blink — oh, that's a weird foreign metaphor. Actually, it's really weird that the plant-person speaks Chelish if they're not from Cheliax.

"I think I want time to be paused back home as long as possible, there were — bad things that were probably going to happen to people I knew, and as long as it's paused they won't."

Griffie is actually being completely literal but it's reasonable Victòria wouldn't guess that.

Also, now it's eir turn to blink confusedly.

"Does your kind of human tend to have experiences when time is paused for them?"

"...not that I know of? Or, I mean, powerful wizards can do lots of things, I've heard of there being magic that works with time somehow, but I don't know exactly how."

"Then I'm not sure why they would benefit from time being paused for a duration that feels longer for you. If you're planning to try accumulating power and going back that's one thing, but it doesn't sound like you are?"

"...Well, once time starts up again bad things are going to happen to them, and as long as time hasn't started then they're still okay, and... I want them to be okay rather than dead?" Frown. "I guess if I could learn magic that would save them that would be even better? I wasn't smart enough for wizard school, but—" She touches the place on her chest where her holy symbol should be. (Wow, she really misses her holy symbol.)

"I feel like you're making a mistake regarding pauses but I'm not completely sure and I also don't know that I have the vocabulary to explain it."

"And Bar can probably get you a cheap holy symbol."

"Oh, that would be great. ...Could it also get me the materials to make one? It's fine if not, just, I made my old one myself."

"If you didn't make it from magic materials, I don't see any reason why not."

"Just regular wood, and later I added some paint." She looks at the bar. "Could I get those? And a knife for carving it, and some painting supplies." 

She can have a bit of wood, tiny bowls of yellow and grey and red paints, a paintbrush, a cup of water, and a little carving knife. Also a napkin. "These are on your tab. If you return the knife and the brush and the bowls when you're done with them, and sell me the chains, you should have a bit of money left."

She had not really been thinking about how she was going to pay for this, which in hindsight was kind of stupid. Still, if the price for having a holy symbol is just about all the money she has, that sounds totally worth it. She starts carving the wood.

"How do I sell you the chains? Do I just, uh, leave them on the counter?"

"Leave them on the counter and tell me you're selling them."

...Probably this is not some sort of trap that will somehow result in her selling her soul. She sets the chains on the counter.

"Okay. Uh, I'm selling them."

The chains vanish.

The magic bar that's a person is still really weird.

She goes back to carving her holy symbol. "Oh, I forgot to ask — how much would it cost to get a strap or something to hang it from?"

There's a length of knotted kitchen twine on the counter. The knots seem like words, though it's hard to read them without touching them.

...She touches the twine.

The knot she's touching means 'free'.

That's so confusing! How is it doing that!

"...is the rope a person??"

"It's a piece of writing. Milliways has a translation effect, it's how you can understand Griffie."