Erin watched Abia offer try to help the man.  She certainly was unusually kind, but this place was just getting odder and odder.  She thought about going to sit by the lute player, but that seemed a bit too forward, especially if he was still considering Abia's proposal that he see to her accommodations.  Or maybe that was the perfect reason<i>to </i>go sit by him.<br/><br/>But for now, she was busy trying to get the map man to pay her.  She couldn't see him well, but his tone seemed to have changed drastically.  Normally she might have walked over to him, but right now things were too peculiar and she clung to the familiarity of her table as if it was some sort of ward against strangeness.  "I believe you, but I've had too many people not hold up their end of bargains like that.  Pay me up front and I'll tell you."