And now she knows where he has a stake though they did discuss mages and magic before, it's still good to hear it. "You would have a different perspective to many, having lived a life unlike any of them had. What you offer, should you choose whenever the time may come, could prove to be incredibly valuable when a path must be chosen."

Because Araceli wants to volunteer her own services to that, in places where mages can't go quite so easily, doing things that are best left to bards instead.

"Wouldn't it be so nice though?" A real working lantern? She's going to have to go poke around the markets and if she honestly has to, she'll deal with the shadier folk since she had no qualms doing that before when it was actually her job. They need to be aware of the criminal element anyway and it might be a good test to see what gets in and out, starting with something so innocuous as a lantern.

"If we get a good deal, I'll try to get you one as well, hopefully the rates will be more reasonable in the docks when they have bodies willing to live in them. He was the one crowned at the one of the festivities?" Araceli had been limping around with a cane, still gritting her teeth through most of it to carry out her duties in front of the nobilities, eager to pretend to be normal in front of her friends at the other party. Paying attention to some of the other parts hadn't been high on her list of things to do.