"I appreciate it." 

Though honestly Anevia could have done without one of the people that got brought back being Count Arendae. Not that she's going to say it out loud. He is a useful healer, when he actually decides to participate, and also if he hears authority figures complaining about him it makes his day. 

Luslla wanders over to where the Storyteller is warming his old bones by a roaring fireplace. 

"How are you doing?"

"Ah...Lusilla. Much better, thanks to you and yours." His hands are wrapped around a mug of something steaming. "Allow me to thank you again for saving me. Please accept this humble gift as a token of my appreciation." He presses something into her palm. 

Her first impression is of warm metal, heat transferred from his palm to hers through the intermediary of the gift. 

She opens her hand and looks and her first thought is sparkly. 

Are rings a traditional thank-you gift in Mendev? First Daeran, now this--wait, hang on. 

She doesn't have Detect Magic in this form, and she hasn't in fact seen enough magic items to be able to pattern-match it, but something makes her hold the ring up to the light and look at it more closely. "Is this..."

"Magic? Yes. It gives the wearer a little more luck, when it comes to fire. Certainly I would have needed it had your party not arrived in a timely manner, but I find such things easier to come by than most. I have little need of it now." 

Lusilla's first impulse is to clutch it tight, slip it onto her own finger and admire how pretty it is, but--she is, actually, already fire-resistant. It would be at best inefficient to wear it herself. ...Not Nenio, Nenio is too likely to take it apart for science. Not Daeran, Daeran is rich and can afford his own fancy sparklies. Not Camellia, she doesn't fully trust Camellia. 

Lann, maybe. He runs around shirtless, which is a great way to get fire on your bare skin if fire is happening. Better than wearing something extremely flammable, obviously, but metal armor isn't that. 

"Wow. Thank you."

"You're most welcome. That having been said...I think we should continue the conversation we began at the library." 

Lucy looks down at the ring in her palm and back up at him. "Is this a bribe?"

"No, no. You don't strike me as the kind of person who needs bribing to do what needs to be done." 

"I sure hope not, but not everything everyone asks me to do needs to be done. I'm going to escort Horgus Gwerm to his townhouse at some point because he offered me a mind-boggling amount of money." 

Chuckle. "That's as may be, and there are favors I may ask of you, but they aren't what I wanted to speak about, and they're unrelated to the ring. That gift is given with no strings attached, as thanks for services already rendered." 

"Okay." She squirrels the ring away in her satchel. She can give it to Lann later, before they head out again.