"It is! And I hear you can make a lot of gold as a mercenary, that way, if you're born somewhere other than Valdemar."

"Yeah. We've had groups roll through recruiting. Great pay and you get to travel."

"Mmm. - All right, this way." Lissa steers her down a fork in the path toward one particular low stone building. "I hope Savil didn't forget I'd invited you for tonight, she can sometimes be a little absentminded."

"Does she not have someone to schedule her appointments? She's a mage, right?"

"You'd think, right! I know Queen's Own Lancir has a secretary, and I think Savil shared a clerk with Deedre and Kilchas for a while, but she didn't get on with them." Lissa shoves open a heavy oaken door with her shoulder and pulls them into a dim-lit stone hallway lined with doors. 

Carissa is paying SO MUCH ATTENTION. It seems like a very good Teleport location to have.

Lissa stops in front of a particular door and knocks. "Saaaavil oh Saavil, it's me - you didn't forget, right?"

There's the sound of a lute playing, abruptly silenced, and then Vanyel's voice, muffled. "Er, one moment -" Footsteps.

Distant swearing, then more footsteps. "I'm coming!" And ten seconds later Savil opens the door. "I'm sorry, Lissa, I completely forgot..."

"Should we come back tomorrow?" she says to Liss. 

" - mommy!" says a voice from inside Vanyel's room, and then someone launches themself through the door and into her arms.