"My coat covers it almost completely but the weather is not really Worldwound coat weather."

"Yeah, that coat looked very warm. We could find you a lighter coat that still covered the armor but, uh, the obvious explanation for an extremely serious and reserved person wearing bulky concealing clothing in a social setting where that mood and those fashion choices are incongruous is 'a professional criminal concealing weapons or other illegal items' and that's not really the impression I want to give."

"...agreed."

"The current patrol route seems to work well enough, so I don't think solving this problem is very urgent."

Nod.

"I get the impression you're not very open to lying as a tool for solving social presentation problems, is that right?"

"I'm not allowed to lie at all, as far as I know - paladins aren't and it's possible the rules are different for clerics but there's no one who can clarify that for me."

"How open are you to other people lying in ways that you benefit from, or that further shared goals?"

"I don't exactly have the authority to stop you - nor in most situations to check if you are doing that until I've learned English - but it does not seem correct."

"I'll try to minimize that sort of thing, then. I can probably get pretty far with cover stories for your presence that just omit all the awkwardly implausible bits."

Nod.

And they're back at the house.

"What do you say to trading Prestidigitation lessons for English lessons with Rupert tomorrow? He could come visit for the day and we could all play two-board redeployment chess when Chris takes breaks from work."

"That sounds excellent assuming everyone is clear that I am really not qualified to teach Prestidigitation."

"We're plenty clear on that, but we want to try anyway. And I think Rupert could learn valuable things about how magic works where you're from even from a failed attempt to teach the spell."

"If he has any way to see magic in general it's possible that would help."

"I'll tell him so."

"...if he needs to watch me prepare it, I will have to get a full eight hours of sleep, drop it on purpose, and re-hang it. This is not compatible with staying out this late for patrols because I get up at dawn to prepare spells even if I go back to sleep afterward."

"We can see how the first day of attempted lessons goes, and at some point if having you demonstrate preparing the spell looks to be valuable you can skip a patrol."

Nod.

"Thoughts on tomorrow's spell lineup? We haven't tested Weapons Against Evil yet, and I remember I wanted to test Mending on widgets..."

"You mentioned, yes. I think you also wanted Detect Magic and Stabilize alongside Guidance."

She nods. "Let me see, what else... we were going to test Hide from Undead... you recommended Burst of Radiance and it was a pretty good call... if you're using a Share Language tomorrow to talk to Rupert you'll want two, I don't think we're at a point where we can coordinate a patrol fully nonverbally yet... oh, and Daylight, I remember Daylight coming up and I definitely want to test that one if we can."

"Anything else you want to call for in the first circle slots or shall I fill those up with Comprehend Languages?"

"I think Comprehend Languages seems like a reasonable pick. Unless we're unexpectedly hip-deep in vampires tomorrow night, we're not going to have that much opportunity to test spells on them."

"...should I be imagining very short vampires, or vampires lying on top of each other in stacks?"