"Hmph, you are technically correct, but I find the order of events and the information therein to be quite suspect..." she stated, adjusting her glasses with a frown. "Conspiracy, no, but I wonder if that bounty would be there if I'd not done what I did...<br/><br/>"Keep the search subtle; I'd rather not risk pissing people off more than necessary," she responded to the proposal to tap his information network. "Besides, if all goes well, mayhaps I'll resolve the search without further concern.  I'll be stopping by the academy tomorrow too I think... and make sure the gnome knows that if she's too 'hands on' with any of my chemicals I'll make sure she's 'hands off' permanently."<br/><br/>At the offered hand, she grinned, and instead kneeled down to give her nephew a hug.  She preferred hugs, if only because dwarves were funny with hugs.  And it was her nephew; you hug your younger family, tradition and all that!<br/><br/>"Next time you come in yelling like that," she said quietly into his ear during the hug. "I'm going to throw the first flask of chemicals I grab at you.  Only a few of them would be not unpleasant.  It was nice of you to visit nephew."<br/><br/>Now time to go help her father out with dinner, and brief him on what was going on so he wasn't too butthurt.  Then an early bed after some work on the silver-sheen for the warforged; if she was to expect what she was told, she'd have a short female alarm-clock that would threaten to burn her home to the ground on accident...