"Keeping my food safe."

"Desk drawer?" Pelape suggests, pulling it open.

"People know that there's one of those."

"...yes."

So Eefa will keep searching for a better spot.

"Who are you hiding it from?"

"Hungry people?"

"As long as I'm working here for the room, we get food every day. If I stop working for the room, we have to leave, so you wouldn't be able to get food out of a hiding place in the room."

Eefa is not sure whether Pelape is dumb or lying.

Maybe one of the floor boards is loose.

"The paper will probably keep bugs out, but I want you to store it somewhere rodents can't reach it. The desk drawer qualifies if we keep it closed. I can't think of another place in the room that does. Even under the floor."

"Rodents don't taste that bad."

"...I am willing to explain this more, but it's explaining, not negotiating. If you want me to take care of you, you will not store food in places where rodents can get it in our room."

Blink blink.

A glance around the room. 

"There?" she asks, pointing at a sconce with a light in it.

"Let me see if it gets hot, if it does it could cause a fire." She touches the sconce. "- huh, they have cool bulbs, I was not expecting that at the apparent tech level. Yeah, you can put the packet there."

And they can remove it later if they need more space. Now how can she get up there...

Pelape will put it up for her if she wants? Or pull over the chair.

Chair works.

Chair it is.

And put. She feels a sort of safer already, with something stashed away.

"Do you want to know more about the rodent thing or is it not important since you found a hiding place?"

Eefa shrugs.

Okay, if she's not interested they can cover it later.

The town outside is - interesting. She's spinning theories while she peoplewatches.

The area right outside of the hotel is certainly busy, almost market like, the merchants who visit the hotel acting as both buyers and sellers, mingling with the cityfolk. 

She might even recognize some of the merchants arriving now.