Cleaning what?

Clothes mostly, a couple of places offer grooming of livestock as well, and one vendor is advertising a bathhouse in town with day passes that cost as much as it does to feed a family of four for a month.

An animal is one thing and a load of laundry is many. How much could she get for cleaning off somebody's cow or whatever?

Mostly the services are for pack animals and include combing with the cleaning.

She can pet a donkey in more time than it takes her to go through a laundry basket. How much.

For each animal she can get enough of the local currency for a day of food.

Cool. She'll set up when she is weary of looking at twenty-five hundred-year-old canned food. Get your donkeys etcetera magically cleaned here.

People give her stall weird looks and largely choose the safer options.

Understandable. It's fine if her first attempt at this yields a slow day, nobody's heard of her yet.

"Hey, I'm Laithan, I havn't seen you around here before?"

"My name is Pelape." She leaves out the jobname. She doesn't want a purple jobname, at least not in a society that doesn't even seem to use them. "I'm new, I've been staying at Elysium."

"And you have cleaning abilities?"

"I have touch telekinesis but I'm mostly using it for cleaning so far."

"Oh, that sounds useful - though uh. Probably you would get more customers if you didn't specify that's how you were doing the cleaning."

"I don't exactly have a secluded place in which to do it out of view."

"How long will it take?"

"For an animal I have to run my hands over most of its fur to be thorough but it doesn't take longer than that."

"I can find you a secluded area that's normally used for storage nearby and you could rent it for less than you're charging for one animal a day, if that works?"

"I don't actually know if I want this to be my ongoing occupation."

"It could be temporary if you'd prefer - I just don't expect many people to take you up on it if you advertise that you're using an ability to do it."

"I have no wish to defraud people. The Elysium folks can probably give me part of my pay in cash if I ask, anyway."

"Oh yeah, they probably would. I don't think it would be defrauding people - it's just socially frowned on enough that you won't get takers in a busy market."

"Why is that?"

"People are superstitious about abilities from the maelstrom, basically."

"...are there historical comparisons I should be aware of?"