"Our magic comes from an entity that lives in our world with us. It - it really does care about us, I think, it's not unkind - it just seems to draw strength from our pain, so that's the price we pay for its help. And you can't look at it, or listen to it, so anyone who works with it will be deaf and blind. Hence bringing other people along with us. We, uh, don't use magic to learn things, because that would work even worse than looking at it. We do use it to travel to other worlds and to heal people and conjure food and other things - we have spare healing capacity to trade but not a lot and it funges against any other use of power, like traveling here. Or, the biggest thing we need it for, making our world keep existing. It's about thirty miles across and it's very nice, just, we have to pay for every inch of it. Our ancestors moved there when the old world was destroyed and we've been alone ever since, just us and the magic. We have records, I don't know if you have records from back then..."

This is an interesting set of claims.

If this entity exists and is as Val describes, it's a matter for Desna's Shadow. Through her followers, most certainly, but a prayer wouldn't hurt.

Zoriana pauses in her thoughts a moment, and focuses on the silence.

There's not, really, a specific 'old world' that's obvious to Zoriana, but there have been plenty of catastrophes. If Val's telling the truth, what happened to his and Alyssa's world could be about Aroden's death, in which case she definitely has records prior to it. It could be about an asteroid strike on Akiton a thousand years ago that nobody ever mentioned to her. It could be some weird knock-on effect of the death of Curchanus. None of these are actually particularly plausible. It's much more likely that wherever Alyssa and Val's ancestors came from, what happened to it was not a phenomenon so broad that it appeared in the tiny subset of Golarian records she's read.

The description of the entity in some ways suggests something evil. It drives people mad, it feeds on pain, and it seemingly has trouble offering access to positive energy. Val and Alyssa's behavior doesn't. Neither of them seem to be afraid of or even giving unilateral orders to the other, and they've been nothing but kind and helpful to her. Furthermore, if the entity were running a 'keep people in a demiplane and tell them it'll destabilize without pain' sort of scam, it probably wouldn't grant people Plane Shift.

And, also, Val's Teleport and Plane Shift capacity is not great, and Alyssa doesn't really look like she's ever been in a fight. Even if these two are deceiving her, they probably still can't cause too much trouble in somewhere like Cynosure Tower. (Especially since Bevaluu's in town right now. Bevaluu's done some Nidal runs and come back from them, and thus has managed to hit fifth circle before age 40.) They also don't have any magic items or spells active.

All this adds up to her probably wanting to try selling them a teleport from scroll today to Cynosure Tower. Or give them one, but they expressed a willingness to make trade offers and scroll ink isn't cheap.

She rolls a piece of paper. "Scroll." She shows them a scroll case. "Magic scroll." She refocuses on the piece of paper. "Magic." She tears it. "No scroll."

She gets out the raisin and some hardtack again. "Small food. Large food." She gestures to Val. "Val magic large teleport Val Alyssa." She does a quick dimension hop. "Zoriana magic small teleport Zoriana."

She draws a quick sketch of a temple, then adds to it people standing on the ground and clouds in the air and some live plants. "Time time, Zoriana large teleport Val Alyssa Zoriana, Zoriana no want coin. Magic scroll, Zoriana large teleport Val Alyssa Zoriana, no scroll, Zoriana want coin."

Probably they recognized the copper disc as currency? They were talking about trade after she showed it to them.

(Yes, Val confirms that it would take a lot of magic to teleport himself and Alyssa.)

"Are you trying to offer to take us someplace with real diplomats? people we can communicate with? just once for free to get us in touch with them? and you normally want to be paid? in metal?"

"Yes", she's offering to take them someplace with real diplomats. …or at least someplace someone can bring in one, her face isn't supremely confident. Her hand wobbles while she gestures. If she needs to explain "maybe" she's going to have to get out cards or something, she can't roll dice up here.

Wobbly "yes", and a confident "yes, time" regarding people they can communicate with. It's a city, someone has to have prepared Tongues and it's lower-circle for wizards and song-sorcerers than it is for clerics.

"No", regarding just once for free. (She'd offer them a free teleport given the circumstances if it's free for her, which means waiting.)

Wobbly gesture regarding being paid and metal.

Hopefully they can ask some good followup questions.