She elbows him again. "My twin brother." 

She'll smile slightly at that.

"You may consider me thoroughly introduced, then, at least until and unless this Mentu makes an appearance."

"Out of all our half-siblings, Mentu is the least likely to show up."

"Until a more plausible sibling arrives, then."

Camellia doesn't make any move to keep them, but once Luzai and Villibor finish up the conversation and leave the smile fades from her face.

Sadly, Luzai does not notice this. 

It would be sort of weird to introduce Villibor to Anevia, since Villibor was hooked up with the Eagle Watch... introducing him to Lann or Wenduag is sort of complicated by the ongoing drama between the two... 

She probably should hit up Horgus Gwerm for the reward money. It's a lot of money. Admittedly Kenabres is not the best place to spend money right now, but at some point, they will be in a position to do things like pay more powerful wizards for spells, and stuff like that. 

So, Horgus Gwerm. Might as well introduce him to Villibor, why not. 

"Hi! Have you met my brother? This is Villibor. Villibor, this is Horgus Gwerm. He's a" rich "Kenabres civilian" who Anevia knows things about like she knows things about me "who ended up underground with us." 

"And a fine job your sister did, too." He reaches into his coat and pulls out a puch, which he carefully places on the table in front of his so it doesn't thud. "A third of the reward, as promised, though I still need to figure out how to convince that paladin girl to accept her share. A darn sight more useful than this city's other defenders," he continues in a mutter.

"If you have a hard enough time convincing her, I'll pay for an Abadar's Truthtelling that if you give it to me I'll spend it all getting her slightly nicer paladin gear that she'll have a harder time refusing. Or you could do that yourself, I guess. Or you could donate it to a charity of her choice in her name! There are options."

"Perhaps something of the sort will end up being necessary. Speaking of payment, I was also hoping to hire you for another task."

"What is it?" So far he's been a very good employer but she doesn't want to make any commitments without knowing what she's committing to. 

That's how they get you. 

"I happen to own a manor on the southern side of the city, where I store a number of valuable items - valuable for both monetary and sentimental reasons. They're reasonably secure, of course, but with the state of the city there's no shortage of looters and arsonists about, and I have no doubts my abode is a prime target. To make matters worse, the eagle's watch seem to have any intention of doing anything about it! So I've decided to take matters into my own hands, and hire an escort to help me do something about it. Your job would be to discourage anyone we catch in the act and to aid me in retrieving what I can to at least relative safety."

"...Okay. That seems reasonable. I will have to check with Irabeth for when she doesn't need us--I do think fighting the demons is more important than fighting the looters--but I will talk to her and see who wants to go and then get back to you. What are you offering, it would be embarrassing if I didn't know that when checking who wants to go." 

"Another thousand crowns. I do have more options now, but Horgus Gwerm has no intention of being stingy when it comes to his own safety, and if we arrive after it's looted I risk losing more than I could save by haggling with the lowest bidder anyway."

Nod. "Understood." 

It has not escaped Luzai that with a job with a flat fee like this the more people who are involved, the smaller the individual share, but--whatever. Not getting killed is also good. 

She starts making her way over to where Lann is, and--hey, is that a holy symbol of Abadar? 

She makes her way over to the guy with the holy symbol of Abadar instead. Obviously she isn't going to ask him if he wants to go on an escort mission, but: 

"Hi, are you a cleric?" 

"Indeed, I am Fiducia Rathimus. Normally I operate out of the temple of Abadar, but under the circumstances a temporary relocation seemed in order."

"--I don't recognize the title Fiducia, do they use different titles in Avistan versus Osirion?" 

"In Osirion, my colleagues tend to take on the title Cicerone to emphasize their roles in guiding people. In Mendev, Abadar does not help run the government; my primary role is instead to be someone categorically trustworthy. Of course, there's also the matter of language; Hallit lacks a precise translation of Cicerone, and the closest equivalencies largely suggest things along the lines of guiding people through the wilderness, which would give people the sort of inaccurate impression of what we do that we attempt to avoid." 

"Yeah, I don't know much about the Good gods, yet, but that sounds more like Erastil. I think. Are you still selling stuff? Horgus Gwerm paid me to do a thing and it's not that the money is burning a hole in my pocket or anything but anything that can be used to deal with demons is, uh, it's not like the money is going to do me any good if I die." 

"Certainly. Much of my spell slots are already spoken for, but not all of them, and I do have a number of scrolls and other goods on me as well."

--The mention of scrolls briefly distracts her. 

"Just divine scrolls, or...?" 

You can copy spells from scrolls into a spellbook!

"Arcane as well, though not as many, and mostly of the first three circles. Do you have any particular spells in mind?"

"Nnnnnnooooo I'm just one of those wizards who finds the idea of learning new spells sparklier than Glitterdust. And green enough to not have many spells yet. I am going to be responsible and not immediately dump as much money as possible on scrolls of spells I don't have, because I have been deliberately cultivating habits of mind to avoid becoming one of those warning stories about wizards with more cunning than wisdom, but I am tempted." 

"Typically those stories are told about more severe failings, but far be it from me to discourage financial prudence."

Between her age and comments on her own experience... he'll stick to bringing out his first circle scrolls, then, unless she requests otherwise.

"Yeah, but I can only cast first circle spells so far! If I wait until I have the chance to mess up that badly I'll have lost years of opportunity to build better habits! And, also, I am not made of money." 

--Ooh, that's Protection from Evil, she doesn't actually have Protection from Evil yet and that is a VERY practical spell to want under this circumstance. 

He has Sure Casting. She's heard of Sure Casting. She wants Sure Casting. Being as good as possible at overcoming spell resistance is kind of key to her long-term plans so she has thought about it a lot. But her long-term plans aren't exactly relevant yet...on the other hand, demons also have spell resistance. 

She dithers for several rounds before deciding to go ahead and buy Sure Casting as well as Protection from Evil. It's practical! It is! 

Then Luzai is now the proud owner of two first circle arcane scrolls. The price is a bit higher than it likely would have been to purchase the same scrolls at one of the major inner sea entrepôts, but after accounting for the differences in currency purchasing power the difference is fairly modest, and Luzai's windfall is more than sufficient to absorb the charge several times over.

Eeeeeee. 

Okay. Luzai was looking for Lann. Luzai finds Lann. Lann is petty unimpressed by the idea of helping a rich man protect his wealth while the city is being overrun by demons, which Luzai feels is pretty legit although not so overwhelmingly much so that she's going to turn down the money about it. He is however fine with being introduced to Luzai's twin brother. 

Ah, there's Wenduag! 

"Wenduag! Hi! This is my twin brother Villibor! Villibor this is Wenduag, she's a good archer."