She reads, and grins. "Well I should have expected this."

"Do you know who wrote this?"

"Not really, but this is the sort of artificer village where this kind of thing would happen."

"You'll probably want to go see them..."

"Yeah. I mean, if they're offering, and all."

"And I won't understand every third word."

"I could bounce translations to you."

She manages not to sigh. "Alright then."

"You don't need to come with me, if you'd rather not."

But then she'd feel like she's being left out.

She shouldn't feel like that, should she? She has discipline and knows to leave technical stuff to the boffins. Right? And-

"...Bluuuh, I don't know, I'll come anyway."

"Okay. I should get changed and stuff, then."

Decision made. "I'll go for a quick jog, and tell Vasil, see if she- they're okay with it."

"Alright!"

"Vasil, do you want - do you foresee any problems if we show you to the person who left that sign, take them up on the offer?"

"This unit is still not familiar enough with current-era customs to make confident predictions about reactions to various piece of knowledge that have been included in it as common-sensical ones."

"Yeah..." She glances around and finds the room empty. "'Don't mention metamancy' is a good start, at least."

"Acknowledged."

"...Be back in a bit." And she goes off for her jog.

It's calming. She's less visibly anxious when she returns, sweaty again, twenty minutes later.

Kaede's waiting for her!

"Hello again. Let's go find this place, then?"

"Yeah, let's." She leads the way through the very pretty village.

Gren is much more able to appreciate the very pretty village today than yesterday.

And they reach a quaint little workshop with floating magical doodads hanging outside for display!

It may be clear that she's harboring a little suspicion and skepticism. She mutters a little bit about decorative magic again.

They walk in. There is a man wearing a pair of glasses paying a lot of attention to a tiny little statue and occasionally consulting his notes on something. He doesn't look up at them, and there's a little plaque on a counter saying "Enchanting, please hold."