[b]Hazel![/b]

Above you looms the Rot Star, vast and terrifying. Its mouth is filled with the woeful yellow-green light of an empire dissolved, its scales split open to support the growth of leaves, the brackish water pours down wings carving shifting water-pattern channels of filth through the tattered membranes. She is vast, terrible and beautiful, and she is as inevitable as an avalanche.

Below you stands Cair, down one level over the soft line of the balcony. She is ninety percent coat by bodymass[1], but what is visible has an extremely trustworthy smile. She is holding a sign over her head[2]. It reads:

[center]TRADE OFFER
YOU RECEIVE: A MAGICAL RELIC FROM THE GODDESS OF CIVILIZATION THAT WILL GET YOU OUT OF THIS SITUATION(S)
I RECEIVE: ONE MILLION GOLDMARKS (introduction offer, negotiable, financing available)[/center]

It's a small jump down. She's got a hand extended for a high five. 

You feel like taking the time to haggle?

[1] Seven thousand percent if we count the contents of the coat.
[2] Cair investigated using the Omnibanner, a sacred relic from the depths of the Stacks used to empower and inspire battlefield troops even as it shifted its heraldry and colours to communicate messages. After realizing that each charge of the Omnibanner was priced at around 16,000 goldmarks she opted for instead for a hunk of cardboard and one of Tsane's used-up markers.