"Ah, good morning, Alicia! I understand...I can't imagine that was<em>quick</em>, to say the least." Mareth replied warmly, even as a part of her realized that, likely as not, the temple was sending Alicia to learn so that she could make potions of her own and quite effectively cut the legs of her own business out from under her. Ah, well...the temple would get what was coming to it in due time. In the meantime, though...<br/><br/>"Well, first let's go through the things we have, and then we'll go over payments and such. I take payment by the weight of metal. So if someone comes in with an ingot of silver, as long as it weighs the same as fifty silver marks, I'll take it as if it's fifty silver marks." Mareth explained, and then began showing the girl through the things in the shop, pausing to get a lunch for them as well. She spent a good eight hours training the girl, and tried to be open to any questions, as well as being...<em>quite</em>friendly, but not out and out trying to seduce the young woman.