"I have a stash of my own, I topped it up in Antiva then Rivain but it's been so long since I've been there I have to leave coin with the Burly, Raas or Kalla to make sure they order extra I can come collect. It's cheaper than buying from the merchants, definitely cheaper than trying to buy it if you're in Val Royeaux." Everything in Val Royeaux is overpriced unless you've got a line of credit.

"Dreams have meaning where I come from but not so much as here maybe. So, say a sailor has a dream where there are merfolk crowding the deck of his ship or singing from the rocks, he changes course and then sees he's avoided a storm. Maybe a mother dreams of her child, all the things they might be. But it's what might be."

If she knew what magical realism was then that would be the thing. But she doesn't so this is what she's got.