"I can tell where people are, and learn aggregate statistical information about the past."

"...well, how do you feel about finding runaway slaves and children."

"I uh-"

"-there are circumstances where I would be inclined to help find runaway children."

"I am going to wildly guess that those circumstances are hard to filter for in this environment." Sigh. "Statistical aggregate information about the past? What's that good for?"

"I use it mostly for things like detecting the efficacy of various medical treatments."

"...if that's all it does it's pretty much worthless, all our medical treatments just, like, work, if someone in fact gets to the point of casting the spell."

"I can use it for a lot of things such that it's difficult to narrow down a good description... I can answer quite a lot of yes/no question of the form 'when this things occurs, does this other thing usually follow'. I can also figure out numbers from this, such as for how long something lasts most of the time."

"I do not immediately know how to sell that. I guess I might be able to use it gambling but that's not a scene I know how to navigate safely."

"It can probably be used for gambling.... I can get other abilities for you given time, though it might take months."

"Months of food for a medium sized person is cheaper than a scroll but not by, like, an order of magnitude."

Nod. He... should really think of a way to be useful.

"I'll sell some of your stuff and then I will go to my grandmother and tell her I just really really want Fly. If that is all you are going to want. If you're about to materialize another expensive need I need to do something else."

"I can't think of anything."

"If there is anything I can to help you.... I'll of course pay you back once I can get back to my world, but before then..."

"I assume you are very useful in your own context but here you kind of sound like a sorcerer who drew really badly from the spell list."

Nod.

"I'm um, optimized for the situation I was in. Sorry."

"You don't have to apologize for it, it's just, you know, inconvenient. How long will this food thing keep?"

There's a label on it somewhere...

"Two months, or uh, a maybe a day or two once the wrapper has been taken off."

"Does it need to be cooked?"

"No."

She goes through each other item. "Selling these things and picking up enough other work to convince my grandmother that I've done my fair share of the work on saving up for Fly - which, like, I did, I just spent it on Share Language - will have me out of the cave a lot. You will need to wait here - you can read my books, the ones that are written in Drow, but a Light will only last so long and it will mostly be too dark for you - and not make yourself inconvenient to my mother or my little sister or any guests they might have for a slave definition of inconvenient. Do you understand?"

"I think so. Is not being inconveneint covered by me not asking for anything or making any work for anyone and doing anything I'm asked?"

"And being very deferential when you talk to any drow even if they're being flagrantly unreasonable, yes. The story I'm giving my family is that I won you in a bet. It's a little out of character for me to be betting so I was very confident and the odds were great and the girl who lost you in the bet was probably looking for a face-saving reason to not have another mouth to feed, okay? - also to be particularly clear here the only reason to have a human in particular, instead of an orc who's stronger and sees in the dark or a halfling who eats less, is basically for sex reasons."

Lucien is going to blush about this, apparently!

"Do you understand. You don't have to bring it up but you cannot act like you have no idea, if it comes up."

"Yes-yes I understand." He is nodding! He would probably feel entirely differently if she weren't pretty and interesting, but as it stands he is feeling warm and nervous and this really shouldn't be the salient part of anything that's occuring.