That's so many books. She's never going to finish them all in one day.

Not that she was ever actually planning to spend only a day in here, but now it's obvious she needs a long-term plan. Well, after she eats she can put up a sign advertising her magic and eventually rent a room. If Cinlirina (or convincing facsimile thereof) says the rooms are hidden, anyway.

Some of the Milliways rooms are scryable, but there are definitely some rooms that Cinlirina can only scry the outside edges of, not any portions that an occupant would plausibly be in. Also, the spatial setup of the rooms is deeply weird, and during a cursory search Cinlirina doesn't actually find any occupied ones.

"Well, that's good. You gonna hang out and see if you can get work here too?"

Cinlirina has been distracted by books but would like to sell knowledge mage services, yes.

Bar can loan out magnetic-letter-based reusable signs.

Saira puts up a sign.

Cinlirina does as well.

And eventually clients start coming in!

A sharply-dressed crocodile-headed person comes down, asks Cinlirina for a diagram of the internals of some incomprehensible device, pays, and leaves without further explanation.

A pregnant woman carrying a device looking somewhat like Griffie's tablet enters, looking deeply sad and then surprised. Her eyes light up when she sees Saira's sign, and she immediately heads for Saira. Her speech is a little unclear at first, but she ultimately gets coherent enough to request that Saira fix a genetic disease her fetus was recently diagnosed with.

"Of course, I've saved several babies and you are not my first human client," Saira says excessively calmly. She examines the genes, trying to pick out which cells are the fetus and whether anything really obvious is wrong with it, and while she's doing that she deliberately points her eyes in the general direction of her client's stomach. "Just take a breath and talk to me about your goals here."

There's a problem on this gene and it's expected to have these effects! The woman attempts to do something on her device, frowns, opens the door, pokes the device, and comes back to show Saira a detailed diagnostic report that uses the same terminology Saira's textbook does.

"You're just here about one gene? You'll want all of it taken care of, I think, that's a little annoying but I can handle that. Come on, let's talk currency conversion, what're you hoping to pay me in and what's one unit of it worth?"

The woman has Euros on her! After consulting with Bar, she also can make withdrawals from her bank account. There's apparently a bit under 6 rings per Euro right now?

How does she feel about twenty-four euros to get this done?

That is a shockingly low price for baby-saving magic and would fail to appropriately reflect this client's appreciation! How does Saira feel about fifty euros, that seems more appropriate.

This has literally never happened to her before but her conversations with Griffie have successfully contextualized it and she doesn't miss a beat.

"You should keep enough money to take care of the baby or it's a waste, but I wouldn't say no and I also wouldn't turn you down if you wanted to buy any other changes, in case there's something I can do to make miscarriage less likely or help the baby grow up healthier. Or just change the baby's eye or skin or hair color, I do that too."

The client assures Saira that this is not an irresponsible purchase on her part, there are some non-necessary baby things that cost more than this which she was planning to buy. And, sure, the client can pay for some reduction of disease risk, but looks rather offended by the mention of eye and skin color changes and says that she's not that kind of person. Not offended enough to not pay above Saira's offered rate mage services, though.

"Huh. I am probably not from your planet and don't know what kind of person gets visible changes done there."

"I'm not a eugenicist," the woman says somewhat defensively and awkwardly.

"I've never heard of that. Is it something I should be worried about, selling my services in here?"

"Well, you look like me and not disabled and not in their worlds, so probably not personally? I guess you should … think in advance about details of what services you don't want to sell? Bar has an internal internet, uh, is that really an intranet, whatever, doesn't matter, that has an archive of my world's Wikipedia which has an article about eugenics, would that help?"

"Okay. Bar, have you got a Wikipedia article explaining that?"

Bar does have a Wikipedia article on eugenics!

What... is this. If she had gotten a tablet maybe it would be more convenient but as it is she acquires paper copies of articles on National Socialism, antisemitism, anticommunism, and fascism. And then from there she accumulates articles explaining communism, religion, and gods.

She adds a clarification to her sign saying that she consensually genetically edits existing people including unborn ones and does not do mass murder of people whose inheritance her clients don't like. And on even further consideration adds that she has no opinion on publicly-owned tools and doesn't like world wars.

The pregnant woman thanks Saira again, finishes up the transaction, gets a free drink from Bar in a to-go cup, and leaves.

Someone else with a room at Bar wants the location of some oddly-shaped piece of metal with a dragon's head sculpted into it and some pieces of leather attached from Cinlirina and holds the door for this. (Griffie would have recognized this as a shield, but Cinlirina doesn't, and it's weird for a shield.)

Another human comes in, hangs out at Bar, and then talks to Saira about paying extra for her to go into his world and buy a bunch of mice to modify before realizing that there's a language barrier to this. He would like a report on his genome and any disease-risk-reduction she can do for adults, though.