"A brooch would be inconspicuous for me." 

"If you do need more materials at any point, let us know."

"I'll keep that in mind, but I brought a lot and have money if I need to venture into a neighborhood for something."

"I'm glad to hear it, but...um..." 

"Different worlds have different stuff in them, stuff that isn't necessarily going to be trivial to buy in the neighborhoods, even assuming each neighborhood accepts all the different kinds of currency, which, it wouldn't surprise me if that's the case but if so it's almost certainly because Dean Mesmerra mind-controlled them to. I don't think you could find Lucy's cider for sale," she gestures at Lucy, "and our world has--the reason I've been hesitant to bring this up is because it would be very inconvenient if anyone malicious got their hands on it, but there's an alloy that'll keep me out. I don't know if it'll work on other kinds of psionics, but it works on my kind. We don't have much of it, but we have any."

"That makes sense. I don't yet know how to work with parts like that, but as I pick things up it's worth bearing in mind."

"Wuxian, your clothes are pretty concealing, I don't think it'd be that noticeable if you had something tucked inside your sleeve."

"I have loads of things tucked in my sleeves! But I'd need to take it out to look at it, it'd be pretty weird to randomly peer into my sleeves."

"On the end of the dangly belt things? It could look like you were just fidgeting."

"This is true, I do fidget a lot. Uh, not that I'm complaining, exactly, but you should know that calling my by bare first name is something of an intimacy marker--not as much so as calling me 'A-Xian' or anything, but not none, either." 

"Oh, do you prefer Wei, or is there some title, or -?"

"'Wei Wuxian' is relatively neutral, but not unfriendly; my closest sect-brother calls me that. 'Wei-xiong' is actively friendly but not intimate. 'Wei-gongzi' is actively formal. Just Wei by itself is less polite than Wei-gongzi but approximately as distant."

"I think I'll go with neutral. I'm Kiri if we're friends, Kiribel for more neutrality, Ardelay in a professional context but that's not likely to come up unless a very specific neighborhood was picked for me."

"Gotcha," he says, failing to use fingerguns only because they are a cultural practice he has yet to encounter. 

Edie snorts and goes back to her books. 

Books books books. Background books to learn what the shit electricity is.

Reading forty ebooks at once while appearing to stare vaguely into space.

Fascinated boggling at astropolitics she never had the chance to learn about at home!

Man, hypnotism is creepy and she has like twelve ideas already for how to use her powers to her own advantage at it.

Probably he should look for mental defense spells but these power source books are so interesting. (Although he is sort of creeped out by the sheer number of magic systems that apparently use pain as fuel. Why.)

Kanimir occasionally kicks Wei Wuxian under the table to keep him on topic instead of getting distracted by discovering the concept of paper airplanes.

Kiri is the first person to yawn. It has been a stressful day.

It HAS been a stressful day. 

"Hey, is it okay with you if we head back now? I want to escort Edie back to her room before returning to ours."

"Yeah, I just need to check out these ones..." She scoops up her copy-for-reference pile and takes them to the desk to check out.

Edie and Emily also check out their ten books apiece.