Jade nods her head to Ariadne.

"That would be good, good thinking."

"Yes! Excellent! Good idea! Do you wanna say what it is? Money? Magic? Both? Something else? Ooh, maybe it's more mysterious and interesting if we don't say?"

Ariadne shrugged, a bit out of her element here
"Magic might be good, or perhaps some pricey components or ingredients for magic?  I  don't want people to think we're wizards or something "

Jade nods thinking that is acceptable.

"Thank you for your help, Marlena Archarossi."

Jon smiles "Well, Marlena, it is safe to say that you won't need to come with us.  Jade and Ari are OK with that and thus so am I. And I agree a benign rumor might be handy."

"All right, yes, yes, terrific, let's say you came here to buy magical weapons-- maybe a special amulet or two? --really expensive stuff, from a seller from, oh, Kashfa. So maybe you're loaded with money, or maybe you've got magical gear. Either way, you're a hot target for thieves to ambush... and/or monsters! But you're the ones who'll be ready to counter-ambush! Oh, that is fun. For you. The badasses. Not me. My part is the lying. Lying to criminals can be fun."



"Awww, sure thing... um, Jade? Right? Really? Right?"



"You bet! I'll go start right now! You bet! Thank you for not taking me with you..."

Ariadne waved goodbye to Marlena.  She v was bothered by the woman's insistence that they could have "made" her accompany them.  Ari didn't think they'd come across as that thuggish, but she supposed that having this random woman feeling intimidated by them was useful

"Farewell Marlena."

Then to the others, "What you saw there was our families reputation. People when they know we are about, especially several of us together. It makes people nervous."

Jon waves goodbye to Marlena. "Safe Travels friend!  Until we meet again" Jon then gives a small chuckle "It was fun playing the 'Bad Guy' for a hot minute. But I didn't realize we were that famous already nor that they realized we were 'royals' to be so afraid of us."

"Everyone here has walked the pattern the amount of gossip just from that is notable. You are right though about her assuming the worse from use due to use being royals. We rather are doing covert work just not for the crown. We are tying up familial loose ends."

Ariadne smirked and shrugged
"Well, there is that old saying 'Power Corrupts, but Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely'.  And God knows that the Royalty on Earth have been famous throughout history for abuses of Power.   We need to watch ourselves "

"Yes we certainly should though a little corrupt power is fun. You think I should sketch a card of Marlena just in case ?"

Ariadne shrugged
"It's probably not necessary.  Can you do that from memory?"

"We were just with her, I think if I spend half or more of the night, I should be able too. Imagine if she is family ? Her own family does seem rather like ours."

Ariadne laughed
"No offense intended, but those kind of families are probably very common everywhere.  I should find you a book on Earth history about the Medici or Borgia families. "

"Oh, I thought other families were different. I didn't know."

Ariadne stopped and thought
"Well....I mean, yes, that's the whole thing.   Almost every family is different.  Some are good and some are bad.   Since are perfect and some are horrendous.  And I'm assuming you'll find some of each everywhereyougo"

"I hope to find more people like us that work together." Jade smiles.

Ariadne smiled broadly
"I'll drink to that"

Jade creates some illusory mugs for them to cheer each other at.

Jon joins Jade and Ari in the toast!

"Alright, let's get some sleep for that mission tomorrow. We should still allow the guard who watch over them to do their job."

Jon nods. "Good night both of you." Jon heads to the inn and his room.

Jade will head to her room and brush out her hair singing lightly some of the tunes she first heard when learning the magic of the sirens. Preparing herself for sleep.

Ariadne went to the rooms assigned to her.  She looked around the place, both because she was fascinated by a bedroom that was literally on another planet, and because she was a bit paranoid about being spied on.
The former reason was still very powerful, though.  She'd slept on what was technically four different planets so far.  Or were they?  Were there other lands on the same planet as Amber?  It would make sense, as the city and surrounding forests and ocean couldn't be THAT big, right?

She chuckled and shook her head.  She still had so much to learn, and it was a bit much to take in all at once.

Eventually, Ari settled in and went to sleep, keeping her battle axe by the bed and a hand axe under her pillow.
She smirked, realizing that she wasn't this paranoid about intruders when she was living in Los Angeles.