"Let's hope it's not too expensive..."

"Information you share here related to these items is confidential. Information regarding business involving the Bank is also confidential. Other information is not. There are certain circumstances under which I would be released from portions of my oaths of confidentially, most notably if I come to possess justified belief in knowledge of crimes under the law of Magnimar. I am authorized to offer storage prices based on my appraisals and my professional opinion but they will be subject to confirmation from the Senior Banker or Archbanker in this case."

Yanor would know and would have mentioned if anything they were doing was illegal. ...probably.

Back to the Message. "I'd accept those conditions, but Tomas, you are the expert on local law."

"I'd accept those conditions too. As far as I know, we have broken no laws of Magnimar, and everything we care about keeping confidential is covered."

Nod. "Yanor, planning to share the two-word description of the area we found it, the owner's title, and the apparent purpose of the section wherein it was contained?" He does still get the final say here.

"Go ahead." Tomas is rarely wrong about this sort of thing.

Out loud! "The book was found in a Runelord's bunker, we presume of the Runelord of Lust. In particular it was within a section seemingly dedicated to magical innovation of some sort, including an alchemist's lab which contained the various elixirs and waxes we previously showed. Physical contact and interaction had no apparent consequences. We have not attempted to read it and have felt no unexpected urges to do so. It stayed within our storage without any evident actions beyond simply being a book during extraction and our return to Magnimar."

The wizard is silent for a few moments. "Well. It will have to be stored in an otherwise empty vault. Too risky to put with anything else." He names a price per day. It's... higher than they would probably like... but not absurd. Given the circumstances.

Any lesser security would be unacceptably vulnerable to it suddenly deciding to teleport off with everything around it. An artifact aura could hide a lot of ways to force through wards, even if the artifact isn't itself designed to do so.

Quiet coordination time again! "Acceptable and worthwhile at the price, and it seems unlikely to go lower. I'd authorize paying this from our current earnings." They need collective agreement for that, but Tencednil is reasonably sure they will get that here.

Yanor nods. "We have no better options. I'm in favor."

"This is acceptable to me as well."

Spokesperson duties again. "We will take that price once it is confirmed. Approximate time to find a price on the other items? We may not wish to sell them all, but likely at least some."

The wizard nods. "We should have prices for many of them within a day or two. The more exotic items will depend on the interests of the potential buyers."

"That will be all from me. Thank you for your time." It's possible the others have something? Seems unlikely.

"Please return our items to the vaults in the meantime. Thank you."

The wizard returns all of the items to their prior containers. He sends an attendant to fetch the Senior Banker. The storage of the tome for the estimated price is finalized in short order.

"I have a letter to send, as personal business. Take the relevant fees out of my existing account."

Morgethai will likely contact her today, but it would be foolish to rely on that. Letter to Morgethai's account — the page is still indelibly inscribed in her memory, 'stung revere omnibus bleak mariner soils' is as obvious to her as her own name — saying this comes from the Korvosan to recently contact this account, I have found an item I expect you will want to investigate, you will not find me in Korvosa at the present time, contact me via your chosen method, any time within a week or possibly two of the date of sending will work.