Marta spent some time playing with the kids until she remembered that she was supposed to have asked the innkepper to prepare the group a meal for later, and the embarrassment of having forgotten such thing made her stop on her tracks and without giving any explanation go running directly to the inn and ask the man in charge, however, just as she feared, it was too late
"Dinner? At this hour? Sorry miss, if I start preparing it right now you would have to eat it in three hours, and I suppose the party you arrived with are already hungry and tired."
"Well, better late than never I guess!"
"Besides, miss, I close the kitchen in an hour so that the smell does not attract distant monsters, so I can't do anything to provide you a warm meal, sorry."
The adept's stomach growled and she gave a despairing look at the man behind the bar while pouting. Far from melting the man's heart, this act made him feel embarrassment for the girl and scratching his head he hesitated before talking
"Well, I know for sure there is one house in the town that can give you food at this hour, but I won't lie to you, they probably won't receive you and in the unlikely chance that they do, it won't be cheap."
Marta recovered her enthusiasm at this glimpse of hope and said that it was okay and asked for the direction of this house, to which she moved immediately. Upon arriving at the place, a youngster blocked her path in front of the door, but when he recognized Marta as the cool girl who had played with them he trusted her enough to let her pass. While the local had a reminiscence of the infamous pub back in Tolbi where she had a fight with some brigands, the people in the place had more sophisticated looks and way much elegant matters. Dressed in silk robes, adult men of different ages and sometimes displaying magnificent works of facial hair congregated around tables to chat, play gambling games, breath the white smoke of a curious tall artifact and drink and eat food that was being catered to them and that certainly made Marta's mouth to melt. She approached an old man with a turban that seemed to be some sort of patriarch, and full of coincidence she went straight to the point and asked him to buy food for five people while showing him the money she had, but this patriarch just gave the girl a detested look and quickly dismissed her telling that she didn't have enough money. However, instead of trying to go back to Cale to ask him for coins, which he would probably need for the healer, she instead looked at the gambling players and said
"Explain me that card game and give me half an hour. I'll have enough money."
Instead of the expected laughter, a gentleman near her politely explained the rules of the card game in which you had to bet guessing the hand of the contrary, similar to a strange poker. With a malicious smile on her face, she sit on an empty seat that was offered to her and after she put her money on the table she was given cards alongside her opponent.
{Mind Read}
Maybe half an hour was an understatement of how long it would take for her to earn the money