"Of course." She laughs again, eager almost. "We will prepare you something of our home, perhaps. They would be glad to show you something of us, for what you will be giving in return."

But with that she steps away, and looks about - she needs to go, relate to her own people everything that has passed in more detail for what they would only have heard half of.

"I should leave you to get what rest you can."

And she heads - not towards the door, but the balcony. Out the way she came, down the side of the building.