Storage spaces seem pretty common, if she'll settle for those - they mostly don't have windows or ventilation, but people stash objects in them and sometimes even hang out there with their doors propped open.

...She cares about having some airflow, stagnant air's bad for thinking, but yeah, that'll do.  ...Say, do they have skylights?

Not in the storage unit, but they do appear to have been invented and appear in some houses.

She'll settle for a storage unit provided they allow her to make non-damaging modifications to it.

"What kinda modifications?" asks the rental guy suspiciously.

"Shelves, probably.  Maybe a half-door.  If I'm still here after a while and feeling particularly gutsy, possibly a skylight, but anything exterior-affecting or involving potential fire, water, or electrical damage risk, I talk with the ownership first and you have a veto."

"You can do shelves. Leave the door be."

"Ayup.  Not like I have anything lined up for that anyway."

Well, she's just going to...buy a chair and - troport tiredness onto a mouse - make a note 'can demons be drowsed, if so can mouse be demoned' - take a moment to relax.

One moment.

...Okay that's enough relaxing.

What's she going to do first...

Get some material samples.

She knows you can measure temperature with the flexion of two joined metals, because that's how most thermostats do it; she wonders if that property could be used to make self-deflecting contacts for troportation-powered heat engines.

Does anyone actually work with metals around here, perchance?

In this storage unit complex? No.

In town? Probably.

In the radius she can easily search by looking around herself? There's a lady making wire jewelry and mouse cages over there.

Oh, cool, she'll just watch that for a little while.  How's she going about it?

She has a wire-drawing bench and turns the crank now and then, but is also liberally troporting between a supply of various thread and her supply of metals (mostly gold) to get the shapes she wants. Right now she's working on a pendant with ultrafine gold threads and a bunch of sapphire.

"...wow, that's really pretty."

"Thank you," says the jeweler absently.

"...I don't want to be a distraction, but if you do have a moment, there's some things I'd like to talk about?  And perhaps purchase."

"Priced as marked," she says, "bulk discounts available."

"...surely bulk discounts make no fiscal sense if you've already sunk the same amount of labor-hours into...oh, whatever.  I'm looking to get some specifically-shaped metal parts, and was wondering about commissioning you.  ...As well as getting some metal samples to troport, though selling that's probably someone else's actual job."

"I can sell you samples but I won't give you a great deal on that," replies the jeweler. "What kind of specific shapes?"

"A very tightly wound coil of wire, of a specific diameter, in gold or copper; ideally it would be minimally troported lest it inadvertently lose the reason I want it in metal to begin with.  ...I'll likely end up wanting to add some sort of crystal to it, but it'd have to be a specific sort and I don't yet know which sort, as is the peril of attempting to reconstruct things with broad knowledge of the underlying mechanism but no actual specifications.  I just need the coiled wire for now, anyway.  ...Well, the coiled wire is the one thing I'd want to specifically get a jeweler's help in securing.  There's some other parts I'll need for the project overall, but will probably make myself or secure as other crafts."

"I can coil some gold or copper for you. I assume you want it drawn instead of shaped from string, if you prefer it minimally troported?" She gestures at two piles of string, one thin and even, one chunky yarn.

"I would like it drawn, yes.  Do you have tools for bending the wire as it comes out of the drawing die there, incidentally?  I could probably make something happen, if you don't; it'd be easier to handle that way."

"No, I bend it once it's drawn to the right thickness."

"...Well, that's something I have ideas about fixing.  How long are you going to be here?"

"I switch at clear and gray, and I'm usually here when I'm awake even when I'm taking a break."