"Well, can you fly? I don't know how long it is to walk, and flying... Probably like half a day?"

"How would I fly?"

"Is that a question? Like, we do have floating couches, I just met you!"

"Yeah but I don't have a flying scooter or anything."

Frown. "And how would I know that until you say so? We JUST MET."

How high can a floating couch go if I push it?

"Most people don't have flying scooters, so it's a safe assumption to make a priori."

"Gee, most people aren't mages or Explorers." Her frowning continues.

"Yes but even conditional on that most people still don't have flying scooters so it remains a safe assumption," she says, a smile playing around her lips.

Frown frown frown. "So? I asked instead of assuming."

"That's fair," she concedes. "In any case, no flying scooters. We could rent one, but half a day high flying is, what, almost a whole day by scooter? Would need to pack."

Frownaround. "I'm fine to go whenever, as I'm sure I said."

"Tomorrow morning sound reasonable to you?"

"Five minutes, five hours, whatever. Meet where?"

She names the road that leads to the edge of town, at... the edge of town.

"Alright, I'll be at the Guild sleeping probably," and with her best guess, "so I'll see you then?"

"Sure! See you then."

A nod, a wave, and Cynthia walks away...

About a few seconds of facing away she stops and thinks to recharge her Guild Ring and probably refill some of the trail mix she has, but that doesn't really involve Kaede so she keeps walking.

The Guild building is just where she left it.

And likely Kaede did not yell back at/for her, so nothing's wrong!

Cynthia walks up to the [annoyed] deskworker. "Hi. So, been awhile, how do I recharge the ring again? Plus I want to buy a room for the night."

"Recharge? You got a new find? And, er, sure, new room—" He grabs a little stone sphere from below his counter. "Put your hand here please. The one with the ring."

Mental tongue-biting. Yes, my find is why I'm back here, it's details are on the board-thing...

Cynthia stays physically silent and puts her left ring-bearing hand over the sphere as requested.

The sphere glows faintly and feels warm, and then her ring feels warm. "You just go upstairs now and find a room."

Nod and smile. "Bye."

And upstairs she goes.

At the end of the stairs there are more stairs with the forcefield before them.

Cynthia walks up and touches the forcefield with her ringed-hand. Probably how it works.