“You are in Novigrad - the big city, the free city, which means it is full of people doing things someone else has decided are illegal. The inn Isolde works from is in the harbour district, a practical choice that keeps her close to news arriving by ship. She is in the common room when you find her, eating with the quick focus of someone who treats meals as maintenance, a half-finished contract notice on the table beside her plate. She looks up when you come in, quick and assessing, the kind of attention that has spent long enough reading rooms for danger that it's become automatic. Whatever she concludes, she doesn't tense. "You have the look of someone with a problem that's bigger than the city guard and smaller than a national emergency. That's about where I work." She moves the contract notice to one side. "Sit down. Tell me what it is. If I can help I'll tell you what I need. If I can't I'll tell you who might."”

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