Belmarniss shows up early the next morning for her consultancy meeting, munching a pastry from her breakfast spread. "Hey - I was told to meet with a Luay?"
Mushroom. It's lightly salted, very umami and has a bite like jerky. "His mom wasn't there, silly, she got eaten by the Tarrasque, remember. No, we found the capital city of Shazeun, it's not too bad a hike as intercity transit goes, they're friendly as drow get, we spoke with someone who implied that she was not the princess, we bought some stuff to settle my bet."
"Thanks!"
And after lunch she can go by herself with the rest of the mushrooms and her bolt of silk to where Merenre works and report in.
"I think you can risk it. It is not without its risks, to be clear, none of these people are very coordinated with each other and they won't trust you off the bat however Lawful your auras and the fact that the princess of this particular city didn't decide to try to murder me yesterday doesn't mean that much about the behavior of individuals with something to gain. I do think that if nothing bad happens in the first while you can relax a lot, though - a lot of chaotic behavior is actually a reaction to expecting chaos from the surroundings, if that makes sense? I still read chaotic but I behave in Osirion and on a certain level it's very relaxing here because I don't have to expect much chaos from the surroundings; if it becomes well known that Osirians are boring predictable vendors of goods and services you can just be that."
"I have to render it available for sale to the general public having first purchased it in a drow country with that intention. I also brought downstairs snacks," she brandishes her bag of mushrooms, "but was planning to hand those out to people who can specifically use them as research material rather than the general public. Want one? Should probably detect poison on it in case this kind is bad for you or something." She eats one herself. "'Nother question, I hear the pharaoh sometimes resurrects people but I have not heard a price tag, does he do this straight up for cash or what?"
"Somebody suggested I might get tipped for going above and beyond seeing the office of the Princess instead of just verifying that you're over Shazeun, that happening?"
"I'll sell the silk and come back to collect my winnings, unless you think he'll wanna see it."