"I suppose I wouldn't turn some down at the right price, but I have a pretty good stock on hand from my regular merchant. Why, do you have some extra on hand you're looking to get rid of?"

"In a manner of speaking," she says, spreading her hands and filling them up with brilliant white perfectly-rectangular onionskin pages.

"Oh, I'll say! What circle does it stabilize at? I presume not first, or you'd be famous enough I'd have heard of you for inventing it, but begging your pardon you don't have enough magic items by far for me to think you're a 5th circle."

"It's a... personal quirk."

"A shame, that, though I imagine it's still quite convenient for you. And these pages are genuine, not temporary conjurations? Is there a limit to how much you can make a day?"

"Genuine permanent paper! And certainly there is some limit if only because I have other things to do with my time."

"Normally I get about 4 sheets per silver, though of course the quality isn't this good; this looks more like the stuff I use for my spellbook or for some of my correspondence, which can go for easily 5 times the price. I'm not really looking for that much paper at spellbook prices though and I kind of expect you'd pretty quickly saturate the market unless you were in Absalom or Oppara or Quantium or such, so I won't just buy a thousand sheets off you for a few hundred crowns."

"Understandable. But in the long run, I can make money off it at a good clip?"

"I don't see why not, unless there's some hidden downside."

"Nope! Just good paper. Any chance I can get the amulet and the ring with a promise to pay you the rest once things are tidier around here and the trade routes back in business, since I've demonstrated the ability?"

"I don't trade on credit with adventurers, the death rate is too high for comfort and I don't really have any way to compel them to come back if they run off with it."

"If you want to get the ring, I'll cover the difference if it's more than you have. I expect I've gotten in enough fights now to be second circle by tomorrow, so I should be able to give you a barkskin to imitate the amulet for at least a decent fraction of an hour; it's got a pretty good duration."

"Oh, if it's that easily duplicable then that would be ideal, thank you, Camellia. I do think I want the ring, especially if I'm not paying extra for the horse bit."

"It's actually quite difficult to duplicate, we shamans are just the exception to that."

She can make sure the total adds up to enough without taking all of Kybele's gold, leaving them rather monetarily poorer but richer in magic items.

Ky dons the ring. Hopefully this will fix her hair, which is in a wretched state at this point.

It won't untangle it, but all the dirt, grime, and grease removing themself posthaste will help with that, and the result is enormously more tolerable and detectably lighter. It'll also remove all the dust from her clothing, and while her skin doesn't feel quite like she just bathed it might well actually be cleaner. There's a mental motion to it, that seems to suggest she can do this as often as she pleases, as well as a pair of other triggers with more limits on their uses.

"Oh, that's better." She will give her hair a fingercombing now that it's no longer gross. "All that and harder to injure too, I love it."

"Sounds like money well spent. Is there anything else on the to-do list, or should we just go looking for demons until you're ready to call it a day?"

"I think I've done all the recruitment I set out to do, but I actually want to spend the rest of the day in the library. You may have noticed we're really unforgivably foreign and could stand to patch that."

"Trust Ky to make a beeline for the library."

"It's less notable than you'd think, since your Hallit is flawless, but you do have something of an accent and are missing some things that tend to be common knowledge in Mendev, yes. Still, I must say it's remarkably dedicated to learn to read the language as well before coming here."

"We didn't, during our missing time when I made these snazzy bracers - probably with help, but nobody else would work in paper, would they - we also appear to have fetched up with language magic attached."

"And it's still active? Even from a powerful wizard or cleric, I wouldn't expect tongues to last more than a third of the day extended, and a shared comprehend languages from a cleric or shaman likewise. Share language can last longer of course, but that would just feel like knowing another language and not automatic translation. And it can't be refreshed from the angel's sword or your bracers if it's also affecting Iskander, can it. Which means unless you both have a magic item hidden on you you haven't noticed, someone cast it permanently, which in turn implies they must have been at least 5th circle and willing to spend a small fortune in diamond dust on it. To have then hidden it and helped you with those bracers... whoever aided you out was someone seriously skilled."

"We must have had a heck of a time, yeah, and I have no idea what we got up to it and nobody seems to recognize me from it either! I'd really like to know but have no strings to pull at this time."

"I have to admit, that is rather baffling. You've only been in Kenabres for two days now and I expect it wouldn't even take an hour for someone new to the city to find someone who recognized you. Still, if you're a successful enough adventurer perhaps someone you encountered before will put two and two together and realize you're the same person they spoke to prior to today, and we can figure it out that way; I imagine saving the city is a pretty good next step."

She offers Kybele a grin at the sheer understatement there.