"Then can I request a couple scrolls of the spell "Sending?" Lyra asked. "So that we can remain there to protect the village from further incursion while sending you back reports on what we find if anything?" She asked the commander immediately. Knowing full well she could use them to that advantage and sending scrolls were fairly cheap anyway; she knew cuz she's used/bought them before while on assignment for the school she learned some magic from years ago.<br/><br/>Despite the faint sense of taint she carried, to the paladin; this request would seem to be in the best interest of those they managed to find and the mission at large.  Lyra showing a type of reasonable compassion for the interest of the victims and the villagers: understanding they couldn't leave if they found a threat just to report back and allow for more victims while they were gone. But they couldn't leave two or one of the party behind: which would endanger them as well.<br/><br/>So the request was actually a way she was resisting just being a greedy bitch and demanding more compensation in the form of gold for no action.