"Oh, that makes sense. Uh, Griffie is the plant person?"

Ey looks a bit startled. "Oh. Yes. Would you be comfortable sharing your name or a pseudonym?"

"I'm Victòria." In addition to being a set of syllables it is also, unmistakably, the word for "victory."

"It's nice to meet you, Victòria."

"Nice to meet you too." 

She picks up the string, incidentally touching several of the other knots.

The string reads "If this works for you, then it's free, untie it if you like."

Oh, there were more words. She thought the string was just saying it was free. 

She unties the knots.

Now she has a length of kitchen twine without knots in it.

Griffie glances at the books on the counter.

"So, is Calistria's symbol the wasp, or the knife arrangement, or something else?"

"The daggers, but the wasp's associated with her too. I guess I haven't checked if I could use a carved wasp to cast, it might work."

Griffie nods.

"If you're a decent painter it's possible you could sell that to guests? Bar can sell copies of pictures, but sometimes people with fingernails want them painted and Bar can't do that. I don't know what the demand would look like, though."

"I've done some painting but not a ton of it. I could... paint people's fingernails... if that's something people want?" She's never done it before but it doesn't sound that hard.

"I don't know how popular it'd be. The Milliways population is pretty eclectic."

Nod. "Selling spells might be easier, then, I don't really know. That's not really what I picked out my spells for this morning" (this morning? she's not actually sure how long it's been) "but I can ask for different ones at dawn."