Ayabel wants to know if she wants a pen maybe?

"I can write with the stream." She stops walking and pours a little ink onto one of the pages. Over a few seconds the ink arranges itself into, No pen required.

"Fair point." She buys a pen. And another pastry.

Ayabel looks at the pastry but doesn't comment. Sunrise Row ahead.

"You want one?"

"It would be nice. You are going to have to feed me if you're going to keep me."

"You can call me Aya if you like," says Ayabel, after disappearing the pastry very fast.

"Aya. Hm, I'll need to buy a pot and a bag of potatoes or something. Street stalls are probably more expensive, if nice. But let's look at these boarding houses first."

"I can cook," Aya mentions as they investigate the rooming options.

"That would be nice, but I can cook as well. I'd like to hear all about this world, though. What kind of things are expensive? I can transmute things, some things at least, and money can not but help."

"Gold is more expensive than silver is more expensive than copper... Expensive relative to what, what do you mean?"

"That's what we have to find out. I can make glass from sand? I can pull metal from ores without chemicals or heat? I can make soap, force crystals to form with the right ingredients, mix up a concrete-like stone that makes excellent building material."

"Pulling metal from ores might be very profitable. We have soap... crystals, maybe, especially if you could turn them into decorative stained glass sort of windows or something... concrete might have a market."

They can get single room with a bed that ostensibly could fit the both of them for five seo per fifteen days (it goes up if they want to buy in smaller blocks), or a room with two beds for seven seos, or two beds in a room with other people for two seos every five days.

"Would the room with one bed be fine with you? I can sleep anywhere. Literally."

"It's your money and better than the accommodations I'm coming from."

Ayabel is curious, but none of it makes sense to her and she isn't clear on whether she's invited to look, so: "Can I take one of these coins to get us some groceries?"

"Huh? Oh, sure, take 20 seo for groceries and anything else you want. Those clothes don't look very comfortable, for example. I like fruit, by the way."

"I could replace your clothes too, with that much money."

"Sure, why not. Flying leathers probably aren't a good long-term outfit when I can't fly any significant distance. Light colors and good coverage, please. Say, are there libraries around here? Doctors? I'll want to visit at least one of the two before deciding how to remove tattoos. Oh, and get a nice big pot if you don't mind."

"Some people keep libraries and there are medics of various sorts. And understood."