"I should go out to the river and get one of my own. Except I-- do not really have the time for a pet," plus she'd lost her first one!! "and living in the inn isn't the best place for keeping one anyway. But still."

As they enter the inn, she casts a gaze around the room -- it's not as bustling as usual, which is good, since it makes it easier to search for the salamander without supplanting people from their meals.

"I don't know what guardian forces are? But if they are like our gods and goddesses, then they are like... old, very powerful beings, with special powers or strength or magical items. Thor from the smithy, actually, he is sort of like a guardian force from my world, I guess you could say. That was hard to wrap my mind around at first."