"I'd expect nothing less." She sounds terribly fond. "Come along, let's find you your sigil while we're here, and then you can return me from whence I was stolen. And make James pay for it."

"Let's indeed!"

Sigils can be found in a shop that-a-way or bought off the Black Lion Traders' marketplace over here.

Sigils!

.... Vetareh is woefully out of touch with modern magic and what sigils would be good sigils! But she's very curious, happy to hold things, and understands a lot of the underlying theory, so she makes a pretty good soundboard for whatever Kasmeer might be thinking. Actually, on the whole, this probably makes her a much better shopping companion than any who would have any annoying opinions that might get in Kasmeer's way.

Well, having opinions or not having opinions both work in different ways, really. But here, she can nerd about the sigils and what they do and how they work with modern weaponry and modern magic.

Exciting stuff!

A sigil is eventually found. This complete, they can wrap up the shopping trip and go find James to pay for it, and also to get into solving that whole... alarming unprecedented magical thing that might kill them or drive them mad that they’ve got going on.

"Did you guys have plans today before I kidnapped you?" Kas asks on the way to the waypoint.

Her mouth twitches at the re-emergence of ‘kidnapped.’

“Not as such, no. We’d finished the only strong plan for the day, I was impatient about getting ‘Hello your majesty I am what I say I am, and my boyfriend is not my pawn in a mad bid for your kingdom’ out of the way. If I had to guess where he went, it’d be the Order of Whispers, though to be honest my plan was to have Taimi call him.”

"You called?" sounds a voice from somewhere in the back of Vetareh's dress.

"By the Six!" exclaims Kasmeer, nearly jumping out of her skin.

Vetareh jumps, too.

“What in the...?!” she says, immediately getting to finding the communication device in her clothes. “Ah, hi Taimi, this is... very convenient,” and kind of rude, but whatever, “but is this a... new communication device for me, or is it James’s?”

"New one, made just for you! I had an assistant deliver it to you earlier today."

"Deliver?" Kasmeer asks, raising an eyebrow and folding her arms in the direction of the communication device. "Seems like your assistant forgot to warn the recipient! Or, indeed, make their presence known at all!"

"Oh, well," sighs the voice, with not a trace of remorse. "I'll tell him to be more conspicuous next time."

“Don’t bother, I imagine James took great glee in getting to moonlight as your minion and take me by surprise,” she rolls her eyes, fondly. “He’s incorrigible and would only be sorry he didn’t get to see my reaction. Well. Thank you very much, Taimi. Could you direct us to James, please, he and I have a bit of an... unprecedented magical affliction going on. Making us see and hear things, might drive us slowly mad, you know, the usual. We might need to borrow a bit of your lab to figure it out, depending on what his secretive organization knows.”

Kasmeer gives Vetareh a strange look, half-disbelieving half-"yep the Commander would date this person alright".

"I'll loop him in! Hey Commander!"

"Yes, Taimi?"

“Hi, James! Thank you for the communicator, It was very thoughtful. Along with your gift to Kasmeer, very practical, it was three gold, fifty-four silver, you’re welcome. We’re friends now, she’s very charming and clever. Where are you, or, no actually where should we meet up, we should get to figuring out our magical seeing things affliction sooner rather than later. I’m thinking it was likely the thing we killed when I first fell out of the Mists.”

Kasmeer hides a surprised giggle when Vetareh mentions the gift and grins at her.

"Oh, you saw it, too? I can meet you in Lion's Arch, or Divinity's Reach, and then get you a ride over to the library, they will want to take a look at you, too."

Vetareh grins back at Kasmeer and winks.

“‘The’ library? Very specific, James. Would it make your entire super secret organization calmer if I spent the entire time blindfolded? Divinity’s Reach works fine.”

"They are not worried about the library, it will be fine. I'll meet you there!"

“If you say so. I wouldn’t mind if it made your spy friends less jumpy and stabby. Anyway, going now.”

She has by now located the communicator hidden on her person. Very subtle, good job, James, she’s not even sure when or how he planted it. Is there an off switch of some kind? Or a hang up button?

No to both things.

"See you in a bit!"

Of course not. So Taimi's going to be listening in to every conversation she makes, which is not terrible, but still needs fixing. She reattaches the communicator to a different place, this time on the inside of her collar instead of the sneaky location James hid it at before.

"Well thank you for stealing me, Kasmeer. I can try to sneak you in with some kind of excuse for the Order of Whispers, or I can try to ask any questions you particularly want to know the answer to for you?"