Val pauses, then nods. "One second." she says, removes a ring from one of her fingers and passes it to Thüm. "Give him this, and tell him: 'Val wants to hear you sing the Skies of Castrovel again.' It's a song he used to sing at my bedtime, when I was a child in Starfall. Where I was ... saved."
She looks, for a moment, very sad and thoroughly distant. The ring is stamped with a highly stylised symbol of a burning star.
The moment passed, she pulls herself together. "Anyway, you have your marching orders. Jonzan and Kender will be here in half an hour or so to cook you a meal. Please make yourselves at home!"
She turns to leave. "Oh, and thanks again for saving my life from the crazed machine! I'm sure you get that a lot! Till tomorrow then!"
She steps out of the tavern, closes the door behind her, and strides back to the house.