"The present is always changing, Lady Toria Lannister. Especially in your pretty castles- what was true when you left isn't always true when you come back."
Jaehaerys laughed. "Interesting stories are her princess-ship's stock in trade. Sometime, ask her if she still has a bottle of that blue warlock brew." He grinned. "I know the way to those, Lady Toria. Friendship and gold will do for now."
He hefted the gold in his hands and his smile widened. A maester's pay and then some. Smart little lion not to insult the help. "That's a fair start made," he said as he placed it in his own purse. The gold itself was of less consequence than the framing of a bargain. "You'd like the girl seen to now? Or perhaps some later time?"