"Thanks. Any breakfast requests?"

"Eggs."

Belmarniss writes this down.

"Might as well enjoy it while it lasts, yeah?"

"Hardboiled okay? Easier to sneak in."

"Sure. 'm not very fancy, really."

"Probably hard to do eggs on a boat." She gets up.

"Oh, yeah, the food here's an improvement."

"Exciting." And she sweeps all the crumbs into her hand and lets herself out.

"How'd it go?"

"She wants a breakfast per individual name but I did get one, Jafee Khalar."

"Huh. I guess we can keep playing along with that until one of the scries works."

"Yeah, I figured it was good enough since you can also retry on the people you already know."

"Exactly. We'll get a lead sooner or later."

"Most of these people don't have antiscrying. Even the ones you'd assume could afford it. I'd say it's kind of stupid of them but I don't cast the spell every day and I don't have an item for it."

"I have an item."

" - when'd you pick it up?"

"Desna gave it to me personally the last time I talked you into casting Mending on the telescope at one of her observatories."

"Can you get another one?"

"If I see her I'll introduce you."

"Thanks. She might be vaguely acceptable, see."

"I think so! The observatories are neat."

"I've never been!"

"I'll show you sometime. - guess we could go today, there's one north of here."

"Ooh. I guess you and this carpet aren't busy till a scry hits paydirt."