It's good that Tanya appreciates the severity of almost letting an outsider bite the dust! They're immortal, which means they can be killed permanently (unlike mortals, who cannot be killed permanently).

Setareh examines the projected scorpion (and the projection itself, which is not an Illusion spell she recognizes) and determines that it's a copy of a local giant brown scorpion. Their venom can be lethal to adult men at the typical dosage of a single sting, but if he's not bleeding to death the mechanism involves sapping the victim's strength until they fall unconscious and aspirate. Djed will need someone to cast Neutralize Poison on him, but as long as he has first aid to keep his airway clear the Neutralize Poison can wait.

"… and summoned scorpions don't have magical venom, so the Neutralize Poison caster won't need to counteract the original mage's work at the same time," she concludes. "Now, if Cicerone Nazir thinks it's not a flee-screaming-into-the-desert emergency, I'll trust his judgement. Sothis is as safe as anywhere."

She wants to know the rest of Tanya's story, but her apprentice is still sitting there and Tanya was fussy about her secrecy, so she won't put her on the spot.

"Anything else I can help you with? We sell wands and scrolls here, and all the common ones are in stock."

Djed wasn't visibly bleeding (to death or otherwise) due to appearing to lack blood (but have a beating heart??). Tanya has no idea how burleev biology works, unless it really was an illusion that he maintained even when his fashionably-broken air conditioning spell failed. 

...wait, she should have been calling Nazir 'Cicerone'? Oops. (In her defense, other people have been inconsistent about it and she doesn't know the rules yet!)

"Thank you, but I'm afraid I'm not trained in using local magical implements yet. Ah, but I'll need to buy a daily Share Language starting tomorrow until I learn Osiriani for myself. Do you happen to sell castings, and if not can you recommend someone who does?"

The idea that aliens would have different magic items hadn't yet occurred to Setareh, but now that it has it's obviously true. It's like expecting aliens to have the same pantheon, or the same number of hours in a day. There's no reason for anything to be the same at all!

"Magic item crafting doesn't need very many spells to be cast in the process. You can use spellpower more efficiently if you run jobs in parallel, but I've never hit full capacity in my shop. I can sell you Share Language at a competitive price if you commit to… at least three weeks, in writing. Fifteen scarabs a day. If you want any fewer than that your best bet is talking to someone at the All-Seeing Eye who doesn't have plans for the immediate future and doesn't mind keeping a regular appointment. I can name other professional mages, but for most of them your Share Language is competing with spells that have a more measurable economic value and they're going to charge accordingly."

Fifteen is the best price Iomedae thought she could get, and being a regular customer of Setareh could also be beneficial later. Committing to three weeks is a bit unfortunate, but she doesn't expect to have to permanently leave Osirion anytime soon unless something drastic happens. (Or unless it's for Earth, in which she'll buy whatever she can for personal use before leaving but 315 scarabs won't be a dealbreaker.) 

"I can commit to that. By the way, do you happen to know how long it usually takes people to learn a completely unfamiliar language, with full immersion and deliberate practice, while under the spell? I have some idea of how long it takes without. And the Osirioni script is relatively complex. ...that reminds me, Iomedae mentioned a local magic item design that could be commissioned for permanently understanding a language. How much would something like that cost? Cicerone Nazir said it would be hard to find one on the open market but if I'm thinking for the longer term..." Tanya can't, actually, afford to pay an extra fifteen scarabs a day for the several years it would normally take to become fluent in a completely novel language! Well, after the first few months she can probably replace that with cheaper classroom instruction, or even a private tutor since classes usually rely on another shared language to explain things in, but a magical item can be resold later and might not even drop much in value.

"Language acquisition gets easier the more Intelligence you have. For an average person, one month to make yourself understood, three months to get as good as Iomedae is. If you're smart enough to study wizardry or even just gifted with languages you can do it faster, but if you aren't capable of learning on your own then no amount of magic is going to help. Boosting your own Intelligence can also shorten the time it takes, if you time it to coincide with the deliberate practice." Knowing similar languages already is the greatest possible advantage, but she knows that Tanya doesn't speak anything like Osiriani. "There's a specific way of practicing if you're starting out with Share Language, I don't know the method off the top of my head but you can buy a manual that describes it."

 "It's the same for every language," the apprentice chimes in.

"Right. As far as wondrous items go… the method of creating Ioun stones was lost a long time ago, so all the extant golden stones are loaded with ancient languages. It's an easy way to learn Draconic or Utopian, but won't work for Osiriani or Taldane. The next best option is the Traveler's Translator, an earring that can telepathically translate conversations. Permanent, but you would need to work with the craftsman for two or three days to attune it to a language you already speak, and because they run on telepathy they don't accelerate language acquisition any more than having a nice dictionary. That would run you, probably fifteen hundred scarabs. There are other options but they're not as budget-friendly – if you think you can learn Osiriani, use Share Language; otherwise, get the earring."

That's several times faster than without Share Language! Paying for a whole three months would be expensive, but she doesn't have to get nearly as good as 'fluent with an accent' before she switches to normal learning. ...unless she needs to read something complex. Well, there's no point in planning for it now.

"I'm sure I can learn it eventually... I can commit to three weeks' worth now and see how far I get in that time. I'll probably end up needing more but I'm not sure what I'll be doing a month from now, it depends on what Cicerone Nazir and his people find."

Then Tanya will get penned in as a client! Magic item crafting as a team demands a fairly regimented schedule, so Tanya's options are coming by early in the morning after spell preparation like she did for the Planar Inquiry or late in the evening once work is over. It doesn't matter either way, the spell is hers as long as she comes by to collect it, but if she misses one in the morning unexpectedly there's a chance that whoever prepared it for the day will be busy if she shows up at noon.

As far as payment goes, they accept cash on the barrelhead but can also take bank transfers from expected repeat customers. Tanya just needs to ask her own bank to send the funds (here's the routing address, if she wants to jot it down), then take the receipt and bring it here when she arrives tomorrow. If she wants to extend the contract that's fine, she just needs to warn them a few days in advance.

Setareh has prewritten contracts for situations like this one. All it needs is the name of the spell, the dates, and Tanya's signature at the bottom.

Picking it up in the morning means wasting half of this one's duration but that's better than spending several hours without. Tanya signs the contract, and will return with the bank's confirmation tomorrow morning. Thank you, a pleasure doing business!

The next most urgent thing to arrange is lodgings. She can afford the Pathfinder Lodge and the Rope Trick for a few more nights, but staying there won't help her determine if someone is actually after her, since any would-be assassin could wait until she moves to a less protected location. Even if today's attack was launched by the tower's autonomous weapon systems (and she doesn't know that for sure) that's not evidence that the dragon's allies aren't also out for revenge; she doesn't know anything she didn't yesterday, and if she doesn't expect to learn anything over the next week then she might as well stop sleeping in the Lodge right away.

She'll visit the bank first, in case there's word from Nazir (and to transfer the money to Setareh), and ask the bank teller if there are directories of services or other ways for a foreigner to find and get some idea of reasonable pricing before bargaining for:

- Lodgings: single private room with cleaning services and at least periodically-on-site staff who can answer occasional basic questions for a foreigner about local stores and services, etiquette, etc. She doesn't want to sign a contract for more than a month yet, but hopefully that still moves her out of expensive per-night hotel and into cheaper aparthotel territorry. She can fly very quickly and so doesn't mind renting on the city outskirts if that's cheaper but has no idea what neighbourhoods to consider.

- Learning about Osirion and neighboring countries, oriented towards a very foreign person who can only read Osiriani right now (in case libraries tend to have a mix). Ideally with someone she can ask clarifications and general-knowledge questions, she doesn't know if it's customary for librarians here to help people other than with finding books or where else to try. Tanya can also hire a tutor, and maybe the simplest solution is indeed to start by hiring someone for a few days even if it'll waste some of their time while she reads by herself, where would she find reasonably-educated people who happen to be hireable for a few days? (They'd also need to be trustworthy to be discreet.)

- Learning Osiriani the language, she'll want to dedicate at least a few hours a day to that (in addition to speaking or reading it the rest of the time) and since she doesn't know any other local languages, a personal tutor might be best here too. (Could be combined with the above, if she can afford a professional language tutor's rates to hire them full-time, and again if any tutor happens to be free full-time for a few days without further commitment yet.)

- Buying some local and importantly weather-friendly (but also flying-friendly!) clothes, she needs a spare pair anyway but the heat is making it urgent

This is an unorthodox use of a bank but the middle of the day is slow; they can fill her in.

The most common way people moving to cities find lodging is by personally locating somewhere with a 'rooms to let' sign on the door. The usual way a mage moving cities would find lodging is by going through whichever social channel brought them there in the first place. No one working here knows of an information service for rent prices, although presumably the government knows how much rent is charged everywhere? For tax purposes? If Tanya needs cleaning services and on-site staff at an affordable price then it sounds like she wants student housing – that would be in the Old City, where the giant beetle shell is, but also in Marblecourt and around Peacock Square and maybe a few other places. If she doesn't mind commuting into the city by flying, the area outside the city proper is not full of rental options but does have buildings she could buy outright and sell later at surprisingly affordable prices. Proper homes come with rooms for the help (obviously) so Tanya should have no trouble finding somewhere that she can live with her maid and her cook and her batman and anyone else she wants to hire.

The teller thinks Tanya might need some clarification on this point: a library is a collection of books owned by an academic or an institution for research purposes. If she just wants to go in and get books on any old topic, that's what bookshops are for. It is customary for librarians to assist people with research but he doesn't think Tanya's request is actually related to anything like that. Hiring a tutor seems more apropos. The usual way is, again, social connections, but Tanya can also put out a want ad in a newspaper, or check the same for listings. Any sensible applicant will have references— sorry, does Tanya have any familiarity with hiring people? The army does that sort of thing for you, is his understanding. Regardless, a professional language tutor is going to be sufficiently educated that they can answer questions like 'who is the current Grand Prince of Taldor?' and 'where can I buy food that won't make me sick?'

And, speaking of shopping, if Tanya is happy with clothing that hasn't been tailored for her and doesn't care to wait, there are at least twenty different marketplaces in Sothis and all of them have secondhand clothing vendors. They should be visible from the air, they're the ones that have huge fabric canopies but don't smell like ammonia.

Nazir hasn't returned yet. He didn't give anyone details on the way out.

She is grateful for their help! Unfortunately, it sounds like locating services without any local help will be somewhat difficult.

She'll check the indicated locations for student housing, thank you, hopefully there will be a few large dorms that she can at least use as a price/quality reference for other locations (because she suspects students may be some amount of noisy to live next to, or even rowdy, although she's willing to be pleasantly surprised). She can always stay in the Lodge for a few more nights while she finds a good place.

She definitely doesn't need a whole house! Not unless she settles here for the long term, and even then an apartment in a well-run building might be better. Interviewing and hiring staff will be inconvenient, buying and selling it will presumably have transaction costs as well as paperwork, and the whole thing will end up more expensive than just eating out and paying for a laundry service.

She is very disappointed to hear Osirion does not have public libraries! (In the sense that anyone can pay to walk in and read any book they want, and possibly check them out, although making them free for residents is also an excellent use of public funds.) Libraries let you look through many books quickly until you find the ones you need. Shops make you buy the wrong book, or buy a lot of books and then resell them after a week, and don't stock nearly as many books to choose from. ...fine, Tanya will visit some bookshops. She hopes they stock a Golarion for Dummies series.

Tanya has a lot of experience in hiring (and also firing) people! From when she used to fire people only metaphorically, that is, before the army. But, well, she isn't local. Putting out an ad sounds reasonable, she's not calibrated on the base salary and conditions to mention in the ad itself but she'll, uh, buy a newspaper and go from there, the worst that can happen is that she'll waste a bit of time interviewing.

She thanks the teller for their help and goes in search of a clothes market. Can she find something in her size that handles the heat better and, importantly, also handles rapid aerial maneuvers? That means staying in place if she happens to be upside down and so on. She can do her own shade so a hood isn't strictly necessary. And of course she needs a lot of pockets. ...really, her current uniform is great, it's just that it was meant for overflying the Alps. If local fashion isn't meant for flying she's prepared to order it custom made out of the right kind of fabric; there should be a tailor in a secondhand clothes marketplace somewhere. What fabrics are used around here?

Markets in this city are huge outdoor affairs, with the aforementioned fabric canopies used for shade in the middle of the day. Most vendors are hawking food, with livestock being a close second. All the meat is still alive, and everything perishable has been salted, smoked, or pickled, but there's a reasonable selection and every stall has assiduously provided their prices in writing (it varies quite a bit, as with a modern grocery store, but if workers earn three pennies a day then food is remarkably expensive). It's all familiar Earth fare, too, no unexpected animals or vegetables to be found.

The attitude that mages get when encountered in an unexpected context is cautious deference. Civilian merchants do not become helplessly obsequious in her presence, but demonstrating the ability to fly at all times puts one in a marked social category where it is unacceptable to make eye contact or small talk. This is impossible to not notice, it's like being followed by a bubble of creeping silence as even people at adjacent stalls tone down their volume. Anyone who has not observed Tanya using magic will otherwise tend to ignore her presence.

There are newspapers! A copy of the broadsheets costs only a few copper, and if you skip the important bits to go straight to the advertisements there is some useful information about real estate prices and tradesmen wages in Sothis. Even the sections outside the classifieds, the parts the reader is theoretically paying for, have the topic focus of a business journal. This would be a good way to find arbitrary goods and services as a tourist in Sothis.

Clothing is a mixed bag. There are outfits and styles meant for female mages, who have the same list of wardrobe requirements as Tanya, but most mages are not teenagers. Secondhand clothes for this demographic do not exist. Young men's clothing does not have this problem, and Tanya can have it all if she doesn't mind dressing like a boy – except for pockets, it turns out that most people who have pockets at all have a single large pocket on the front over the belly. Adding more is a job for a tailor. Apart from the paucity of pockets and the fact that most women do not fly, though, the clothing looks fine and keeps the heat off effectively. It's made from linen and cotton (that's it, no other plants or synthetic fibers), all white except for the rare article dyed red or blue, and trends towards being modest. Osirian clothing looks heavy but feels pleasantly light and hard to ruin with sweat, although in the secondhand piles there are some options where the previous owner definitely tried.

It would be even better if someone collated the ads and prices across a longer period, but she can work with this! Hopefully.

What counts as young men's vs women's clothing? Her uniform is unisex, is that acceptable flying-women's clothing? She doesn't want to look like a cross-dresser but she is NOT giving up pants and pockets! If they think it's immodest for women to bare their arms or something, she doesn't care as long as it doesn't result in being MORE HOT.

Everyone is wearing shapeless tunics and baggy trousers, men and women alike, but none of this is indicative of a culture of restrictive modesty. If Tanya wants to go out in public with bare arms she is going to get SUNBURNED which is a miserable experience even when you don't have white skin. There are subtler differences than that – like songbirds, men are dressed in more vibrant colors while women wear drab and khaki. Pants that are designed to seal around the ankle instead of allowing maximum airflow at all times are accoutrements of manual labor, like wearing a turban to keep out the sand rather than a proper hat or hardy leather handwraps suitable for holding sun-warmed metal rather than fashionable cotton gloves. Tanya can dress like a day laborer for personal comfort and access to one (1) marsupial-style pocket and no one is going to so much as breathe a word of disapproval.

(It's her lack of jewelry that's more noticeable to the Osirian eye – not even adventurer jewelry but regular earrings or bracelets or even a necklace – but Tanya is both young and foreign, so no one thinks too much of it.)

Drab and khaki is how Tanya has been dressing for the past five years! It's not even for camouflage, it's just the natural state of field uniforms. No fabric will stay white for long in the face of mud, rain, smoke from explosion s and the occasional splatter of blood. 

If the only gendered difference is color then she is cheerfully goong to ignore it in favor of getting the comfiest, lightest (boys') secondhand clothes she can find on short notice. With pants that can be tied off at the bottom for flying (but are fully ventilated the rest of the time, please!), and a bag or something to carry her old clothes in. She'll need her belt for the pistol holster, she can hang some more pouches from that for now. (She doesn't want a bib. How do you even use that?)  And she needs lighter socks and shoes and so on. ...is there somewhere to change? 

After all that, and feeling much better, she'll ask for directions to a tailor who can make her some property fitted clothes. With pockets. But she's not going to wait what might be days while wearing alpine kit.

You are not supposed to change in public!!! Go home to do that!!!

(There are latrines that offer more than zero privacy if she really insists. Sothis appears to use composting toilets rather than flushing ones, which is weird because they have sinks for handwashing afterwards and drains to assist with mopping the floor so it's not for lack of running water.)

And there are tailors, who are more willing to make small talk once Tanya gets them going. Like the marketplace stalls they are very forward about prices, but they charge by the type of fabric and area used rather than man-hours of work or the type of garment, which makes it hard to figure out how expensive adjustments (cheap) and pockets (significantly less so) are. The first tailor to take Tanya's request doesn't seem to care how she's dressed, but unlike the others is willing to explain why: most mages dress however they want. 'Unremarkable rank-and-file magic user' is an oxymoron; even members of the Risen Guard make distinctive sartorial choices to go along with their uniform pieces. He ventures an opinion that it's a cultural thing: most magic items have the visual flair of their creator, who probably died hundreds of years ago, but are too useful to avoid using just because they're garish and clash with modern tastes. Among serious wizards, wearing eight different mismatched articles of clothing is a signal that you are incredibly rich and powerful. He can't make his customers a magic robe, or even armored clothing, but he can respect their desire to copy their social betters by dressing with their eyes closed.

Compared to that, Tanya is downright practical! The average wizard specifically requesting extra pockets and tightly cuffed pants is probably trying to secrete their familiar somewhere they're not supposed to go, in his opinion.

She wasn't going to change in public!! She was asking if there was a changing booth somewhere! ...fine, be that way.

Tanya appreciates the tailor's agreeableness and lack of sartorial opinions! She's not trying to pass for a local, she just wouldn't want to dress in a way considered culturally inappropriate for some reason. How much does the tailor want for a full suit of clothing, with pockets in the places Tanya is used to, and a few sets of underclothes? Which fabrics are the better ones, she hopes not to spend too much time outdoors but it does need to work when she does.

(Is that why the huge front pocket, to put cat familiars in? Presumably not but Tanya is honestly unsure why else you'd want it outside of niche applications.)

The discerning desert explorer wears a base layer made from linen and outerwear made from wool. The best type of wool is (tragically) imported sheep wool from across the ocean, but dromedary wool is also fine if you spin it right and costs half as much. There are a dozen yarn types on a spectrum of price and quality (the tailor is not going to suggest colors unless Tanya asks, he suspects she is not intentionally trying to dress like a boy) but a full climate-appropriate wardrobe will only cost a few gold scarabs at most even with all of the frills.

Except for the pockets. He's not really sure what Tanya means by "pockets in the places she's used to". Can he inspect her uniform to see what that's all about?

...is the wool for the cold desert nights? Tanya isn't planning on exploring the desert and certainly not on camping out there, and she can warm herself up with magic if she's not asleep. Also, she has a coat meant for flying next to the fucking Alps. At five hundred miles an hour. In January. She just needs something for when it's too hot which is always.

The tailor can look at her uniform! She can put it back on if that helps. Pockets are extremely useful for putting things in that you need to get at quickly, possibly by feel. Tanya has a low opinion of a civilization that hasn't invented the pocket. (Maybe she can sell them the idea?)

...it's not an unfamiliar idea that pockets are a local and/or recent invention. Traditional Japanese clothing doesn't have pockets, and it was still being worn in the middle of the nineteenth century! (That is why they needed to rapidly modernize the country to stand up to the Europeans.) Tanya definitely shouldn't judge the rest of Osirian culture for its lack of pockets.

Then Tanya's first isekai invention on the planet Golarion is the modern pocket!

Kind of. Her uniform pockets use lockstitching on the seams and bar tacks for stability, both of which have a level of consistency that is functionally impossible to achieve by hand. Her tailor would really like to know who made these pants! Is the method unique to a single ascended master, or a guild, or have they spread it?

The concept of smaller reinforced pockets, though… he can do that. He obviously can't copy her stitching but he can do something similar for the seams. Assuming the person who made Tanya's uniform is right about the stress points covered in bar tacks (and why wouldn't they be?) he can do the same thing with rivets. In fact, now that he's seen them in action, the usefulness of the pocket is so self-evident that he's surprised they don't do it her way already.

The wool outer layer is actually for the daytime. It's not as common as some other fabrics because of how expensive it is, but desert yarns are extremely breathable. The goal is to keep the sun off while venting body heat, like you're inside a tent. Without layers to deflect incoming radiation the sunlight will bake you faster than anything else in this climate. The only thing this has in common with Tanya's winter coat is the animal the fibers came from.

They're machine-sewn! Do they not have sewing machines? Oh no. ...they were made in her homeland with the assistance of mechanical device(s), that's how the stitches are so even, and they will hopefully be introduced soon in Osirion.

The usefulness of pockets is self-evident, she's glad he agrees!

Tanya comes with a built-in (magic) parasol so if the wool only helps with direct sunlight she doesn't really need it, but if it helps with ambient heat she'll gladly pay for it.

The tailor is more viscerally impressed by this feat than Iomedae was by the canteen. It doesn't look like Tanya has a sewing machine with her (unless she does, because for all he knows they added an extra Pocket of Holding to her uniform when she became a mage) but she should sell his guild one of them at her earliest convenience. He can't begin to imagine how much it'll fetch her but he suspects it will make her descendants comfortable in a hundred years.

If Tanya is going to go everywhere with a magic parasol to block the sunlight (he no longer feels surprised by anything that happens in this conversation; Tanya could be a dragon at this point and he would be less confused overall) then she only needs the base layer. He'll sew the pockets into that, save on the wool, and use the nice outer stitches to make it look good.

All this for a few pennies (that is, a few week's wages for a skilled craftsman). Does Tanya have an address he can send this to once it's finished?

The sewing machines aren't hers to sell at the moment, but one way or another they'll be coming to the Osirian market! (She is vaguely aware that there are several designs. Some of which might still be under patent in Germania, which... may or may not apply to Germanians selling the design abroad in a country that hasn't signed a patent treaty with Germania, Tanya doesn't remember what the law says about that. Someone's grandchildren are definitely going to be very rich.) 

Tanya hadn't had the conscious thought until now but, yes, why don't more people carry parasols? She's seen people holding them over someone else, but in this sun shouldn't everyone with a free hand carry a foldable parasol? They can't be nearly as expensive as the wool!

She doesn't have an address yet (it's next on her to-do list!) but she'll come back to let him know once she does, or to collect the clothes herself.

There are no umbrellas for sale in the marketplace. They're a niche item, not enough demand to support the distribution channels that food and livestock call for. The ones she can see from above are all made from decorative fabrics and large enough for one person holding it at the center of a group to cover several others at the same time.

With the engines of commerce grinding into action on her behalf, Tanya can now look into a more permanent housing solution. There are several institutions of higher learning in Sothis, each of which is specialized and a little on the small side. In the past they were all fully independent of one another and ran on public funds, but since being privatized by Khemet II they've been slowly agglomerating into an academic superorganism – with some holdouts, nobody expects wizards to ever stoop to that, but it seems to be working well for everyone else. Student housing is the collection of second-story flats, in-law suites, and other converted buildings in those parts of the city, rather than dormitories owned by schools. Studying law or commerce or mathematics is an expensive proposition, so all of them are young adults from well-to-do families and are frequently married themselves. This may disguise the fact that every single student is male.

If Tanya needs staff for cooking and cleaning and enough room to host people she's looking at five to ten scarabs for a full year. None of these places are going to rent to her on anything less than a monthly basis, it's just not worth it for them. If she wants to go door-to-door and haggle she might be able to get a shorter lease in a smaller building.

The missing (small, cheap) umbrellas remain a mystery.

Housing: is cheap enough not to be a problem for Tanya! (Alternatively: she is now rich enough that housing for the remainder of her natural life is only a small part of her total budget.) That means she's in a position to choose based on quality, and maybe in a month or two she will buy a house, but for now the most reasonable of these will do. (Young, married adult students indicate a quieter neighborhood compared to unmarried ones, although if they have small children that may make it louder in a different way.) 

Today she's only scouting out the sorts of place she'll probably rent. (Tanya doesn't know how student-targeted housing works in the middle of a semester or for that matter the middle of the summer break, hopefully there are vacancies ready to take on a tenant on a day's notice?) She wants to stay another night at the Lodge, or until she can talk to Nazir or Iomedae again and ask them what they think of her security situation (unrelated to the tower). In fact, she'll head there now so she can stop carrying her winter gear everywhere. Then she'll get lunch, and then - probably back to Nazir's room at the bank to read the newspaper's classifieds section more carefully, and check what books he has before she buys any for herself.

The entrance to the Lodge is still guarded by the living pile of stone. When it's not moving it looks like an ancient statue covered in sand, all the details worn away by centuries of exposure to the elements. It is impossible to tell whether it recognizes her from last night, but if Tanya yells at it in just the right way it will stop pretending to be a statue and admit her. If Tanya wants another room it's the same rate as the first night. They don't have food here – or rather, they have stockpiles, but it's mostly hardtack enchanted to keep men at fighting strength on one meal a day during an emergency. There's a similar crowd of people around (including more with guns, the only ones she's seen in this entire country thus far) who will advise her that they're pricey and taste like dirt. Go buy a normal lunch somewhere else.

The Pathfinders don't normally sell books but they do have some excellent maps and atlases, which Tanya is free to peruse as long as she tells everyone what she's up to.