Jacob continues to picture the city and the lands around it, slowly imagining minor changes.  He's not really sure if he can change the areas he's not looking at, but then, he can't see all of the city at once either...and if his hunch turns out to be wrong, he can always adjust matters later.<br/><br/>He pays a visit to the 'very honest' money-changer, but only exchanges a relatively small fraction of his Ahlamic coin (turning coppers into golds, of course, before exchanging them for various denominations of the local currency), resolving to find out later just how this merchant's rates really compare.  After nailing down as many points of local custom -- particularly law and etiquette -- as he can think of, he asks the urchin to show him the way to the House of Swords.