"Adventuring party of mostly humans, scary. Foreign lady and her possessions less so."

"Pay'd better be real good."

"I'll ask before accepting. You wanna give me a number? And ask the others who do not seem to have dropped by for a visit."

"I was just very curious about the prince, you know how it is. Dunno. Mahdi's usually pickiest because he can make a couple hundred a day off selling spells here in the city. On the other hand a lot of that's scrying and he still needs to level... maybe five thousand."

"A day?"

"Nah, for the whole swing."

"Noted." She notes it.

"That is a discount because you are cool, other drow not substitutable."

"I will bear that in mind should the Crown pull one out of a sofa cushion and suggest swapping her in."

"I shall leave you to your very important negotiations, then."

"Going back in tomorrow. I'll take careful notes on the royalty for you."

"You'd have my wholehearted support in avoiding them entirely."

And he leaves.

She goes back as requested the next morning.

Luar is working out his business plan! He is in fact interested in having her go scout and find out who is in charge directly below them and how hard they are to reach.

"Should I bring my party? What're you paying?"

"What does your party hire for - who's in your party -"

"Cleric. 'Nother wizard. Guy who shoots things. Other wizard wants an estimated five K but I didn't get that from him direct, others'll probably go for cheaper if we wanna leave him home."

"Does having them along make the work safer or easier?"

"Depends on what I find. I'd have them posing as my slaves."

"Got a quote for you alone?"

"Uh, alone I want seven point five plus whatever it costs to insure all my gear because I wouldn't get it back if something happened to me. I think my gear is priced as you'd expect except the ring was my mother's and I charge extra for sentiment."

He takes notes. "Not my call, understand, not with numbers like those, but I'll have an answer for you by tomorrow."

"Sure thing. Anything else to cover today?"

"Uh, yes, actually, but it's not my department."

"Okay, should I just wait...?"