Lucien can mostly make a living off of doing divining for certain niche medical studies, but he can't do specific enough conditionals to get his grander ideas off the ground yet. Still, when portals start showing up he's well positioned to suggest to a few people that diviners like him could be useful for quickly figuring out what conditions on the other worlds are actually like.
Still, they're taking a chance on Lucien by approving his application to join the expedition, so he definitely really shouldn't be late for his first day of work. He also probably shouldn't be running along a poorly maintained trail in Bolivia, but between that and the possibility of being late he knows which he prefers.
Well, which he prefers right up until he's tripped on a branch and sent tumbling towards the portal.
"Hanging out in the kitchen increases your exposure enough that I want you in normal clothes. Lemme take some measurements?" She produces a length of string from her trunk.
She is brisk and efficient about getting it around various parts of his person and marking the lengths with knots. And then she casts a fresh Light for him and runs off to go clothes shopping.
Lucien is discovering new things he's into at a really bewildering pace.
He looks through the atlas in more detail while Belmarniss is gone.
She's only gone for about four times as long as it takes his Light to run out this time. She hands him some silk. "There you go."
Belmarniss is back about fifteen minutes later. "- your cinches are done up funny, you want them like I have mine," she says, holding her sleeve near the light.
"No problem." She pulls out a little stone case from her trunk and hands it to him. "Sewing kit."