He has to think for a minute - he doesn't keep magic items as trade goods, you see, so he has to think about what he's willing to part with - but he has a few rings that protect their wearers from extreme weather, and - well, he has a small box that turns into a large boat, but they can probably already do that - rings that improve skill at jumping and swimming, and he has one for climbing too but he doesn't have a spare of that - he might still have that periapt that improves intelligence, or he might have sold it already, he'd have to check - a rope of climbing probably isn't very useful to her but she might be able to resell it as a novelty...

Intelligence or protection from extreme weather sound most useful; swimming, jumping, and climbing would mostly be useful for a child or a civilian, since walking on walls or water are fairly basic chakra skills, but there might be some use for hobbyists...

Yes, those sound less useful in context. He might have a ring or two of feather falling, actually, those might be useful for beginners learning to use chakra.

If they do what they sound like - other than a few wind techniques there's no real way of slowing falls, even for experienced ninja.

She's willing to rather cheerfully haggle for the magic items useful locally; her own magic items seem to be in the same 'minor amusement' category as the clockwork toys (endless waterfalls, carvings with glowing pieces...), though there's boxes that functionally mostly work like bags of holding but are no more than twenty pounds each (most far lighter), even for a comparable carrying capacity to the best bags of holding, and are all far smaller in exterior dimensions.

(She's able to pull them all out, though she'll only do so one at a time for the magic items, and demonstrates her sealing scroll - which even the boxes of holding fit into without issue, each item simplified to a symbol on the paper.)

Being able to put the sealing scrolls into each other is interesting - his can't do that - but he's much more interested in the technology than the magic.

He wants some privacy for getting at his stash - his way of doing it isn't nearly so elegant as hers - but he's happy to haggle now if she doesn't mind his uncertainty over some of the quantities involved. (He estimates that he has about forty pounds of copper.)

She's fine waiting for him to return. (She could use the time to talk to her group, after all.)

He takes Ertan with him when he goes; they're gone for about twenty minutes. When he returns, he reports that he has three rings of Endure Elements, two of Feather Falling, one each for jumping and swimming skill, the periapt, and he remembered while he was going through things that he had a pair of fingerless gloves that increase dexterity when writing; perhaps they would be useful for writing seals?

He also has the copper; his scale says it comes to just over forty-two pounds.

She'll want to try the magic items she can, of course, but those all sound like something she's willing to trade for.

(When it comes time to haggling, she's friendly and talkative and rather shrewd on ferreting out what he thinks things are worth).

Of course she can test them; a wise businesswoman wouldn't trust a stranger that far.

He seems to consider the periapt to be more valuable than the rest, and even those quite significant, but he's not especially pushing to get what he thinks they're worth.

Well, what does he think they're worth, she'll eventually ask, after she seems to realize something, and - "I feel our cultures might lend themselves to some talking past each other, and that it might benefit us to be less secretive," she says, "Though I'll hardly give out classified information, perhaps it'll benefit us both to show our cards - for free, even."

"Yes ma'am, I imagine you're right. I've been thinking of one of your single meal beads as being worth one silver coin, from home; large transactions are in gold or occasionally platinum coins, which are worth ten and a hundred times as much respectively. And secondhand like this, I could expect to get a bit over a thousand gold for any of these but the periapt, which I could get about two thousand for. Obviously the skill rings will be worth less here, of course."

"Ten or twenty thousand simple beads, then... That's about a scale with some of my more complicated items - the storage boxes especially. I'd expect twenty thousand for this one, or I suppose two thousand gold," and she indicates a box with complicated wood inlays, "Which is a Type Po, holds about - math doesn't work cleanly, but it's a bit over thirty-six cubic feet. Though I'd usually try to get twenty-four thousand or more. Smallest box I have, Type Ja, is three thousand beads at a minimum, holds something like five cubic feet. Twenty thousand beads is a good-sized house somewhere nice - well, anywhere houses don't literally grow on trees, at least - and I'd expect a well-off farmer's total worth to be five thousand beads. The silks I'd expect a hundred to a thousand beads a bolt for anything you're not flat out special ordering."

"Now, and I think this is something you seem interested in, but buying secrets is a weird business - blueprints for things we've had since Imperial times, probably around five hundred to a thousand beads would net you it, unless someone picked up on you being foreign, or you could trade a secret for a secret, or a promise, or a favor. No money's gonna bribe you into Uzushio transport seals or whatever Lord Tobirama uses to zip around, but powerful enough magic might sway any leader - something we can repeat moreso than a one-off. Custom seals are possible but expensive, and that's a diplomatic trade half the time. Trains, photographs, lights... That's someone's life's work, and they'd have a reasonable expectation of not selling it unless you can set them until their next discovery. Ten to a hundred thousand beads, depending on them and what they think it's worth. Some of them won't sell for love or money. Samples would be cheaper, if you just want a light bulb, though buying a whole printing press probably runs more than buying the blueprint."

"I'm willing to offer you market value on those except the skill rings, too - I probably can't turn the skill rings around all that easily." She's also willing to offer above market value for the periapt, but she's not going to offer if he's willing to part for market value.

He nods. "I do have some very powerful magic available to me - mostly not repeatable, but I can cast high-tier spells myself, if there happens to be someone around who needs something I can do - I'll have to have a look at what there is to buy, here, though, before I consider that. I know plenty of stories and things about how my home works, but not many things I think of as secret, or that would be immediately useful to know; it seems like we have different customs around that, though, and you might have some things in mind that I'm not thinking of. Market value is fine, for these - what's a printing press?"

"One of the things you didn't seem to know the translation of. It's a machine that makes multiple copies of a page, so it lets books and such be made quickly and cheaply."

"We don't know what spells are high tier, or even basic, for you, which complicates bargaining on our end. And stories about how a place works are very useful - how do the people in the stories apologize? What are their taboos? What's rude, what's polite? How do they speak to each other, how do they negotiate? What's considered everyday, and what's exceptional? It's useful for navigating speaking to you - which stories you tell says a lot about you - but also if we're ever in contact with your home, and information has - a value independent of what it's for."

"Oh, I definitely want blueprints for a printing press. Or at least to see one. I'll have to think about what stories I might tell - I'm something like a professional traveler, I've been all over, so if I just tell you what comes to mind, it's going to be more an indication of what was memorable than what's common; that's still useful, of course, but probably not worth my time when I'm burning spells on translation. For spells - at the highest tier, excluding spells that are specifically for combat, I can detect the location of a person who's magically shielded given an item of theirs to use as a focus, I can suppress other magic near myself, and I can make a few kinds of very powerful magical traps. At the next highest tier, I can teleport to anyplace in the world I've seen, including via magic, with up to five passengers, control the local weather for a few hours and possibly up to a couple days, regrow limbs, resurrect someone who's been dead up to a hundred and fifty years given any part of their remains, spy on someone elsewhere in the world for several hours, or make slightly less powerful traps. I'd expect to get about twelve hundred gold for a spell of the highest tier I can cast, and a bit over a thousand for the next tier down - the rule of thumb is ten gold per tier per caster tier, and I'm a fifteenth-tier caster and can cast spells up to eighth tier, but some of those spells have costly material requirements that aren't included in that."

That gives her pause. "Resurrecting the dead - proper, not just as puppets - isn't something we can do. At all. And twelve hundred - that's nothing, for undoing death. Uzushio... We rarely die of anything but old age, and we live a long time, but even we mourn our lost loved ones. Here, though? They carved their peace out of blood. I don't think there's a single person in this village who isn't missing family, and I know there's been some deaths back during the wars that turned out - politically awkward."

"- you can't. Well. That is one of the costly ones - ten thousand gold worth of diamonds, destroyed as part of the casting - but I can do it. Properly; they're a little weaker for having come through it, but otherwise fine."

She nods. "No one not desperate is gonna trust that without verification you're not controlling whoever, or that it won't fall apart, but - if you talk to someone actually high up, they'll be able to set up steps to verify all that. Diamonds - is it a set quantity, or the worth that matters?"

"Worth. It's - slightly complicated; my world is different."

"Sounds it," she says, wryly. "I don't even know where to begin on all the technical questions anyone would have. Still, it's been either more than a hundred fifty or less than sixty years since we lost someone I'd personally pay that for; I'll let Uzushio's leader know it's a service we might be able to trade with your world for, but I wouldn't expect him to move on that anytime in the next year. I can't say I have any particular need of your other spells, but I'd be satisfied with a more regular trade."

He nods. "That sounds agreeable."

She hums, restates her terms, and reclaims her friendly demeanor, wrapping up their trade quite deftly.

Very good.

He stashes his acquisitions and heads back to the lobby to talk to the proprietor.

She's there -

As is Tobirama, leaning against a wall.

Even better. "Hello. Is everything all right?"