The actual 'SHOPPING' trip starts with Ione making a beeline for  an enormous brass edifice with literal actual mithril fittings about it, some sort of absurdly high-class interdimensional brothel, with a symbol that means 'Wishes granted here' - if you have a Wish diamond and the rest of some exorbitant price, presumably?

And then Ione pays over twenty platinum pieces just to be allowed to speak to the proprietor, and 200pp more for the enormous fiery proprietor to swear to absurd secrecy conditions, after which Ione goes off to negotiate in privacy with the proprietor...

...leaving Pilar alone in the waiting chamber of a high-class interdimensional brothel, with various things (mostly female insofar as they have an identifiable gender at all) trying to flirt with her and entice her into a dalliance that costs as much as a +2 headband of vast intelligence would cost a year earlier.

The actual 'SHOPPING' trip starts with Ione making a beeline for  an enormous brass edifice with literal actual mithril fittings about it, some sort of absurdly high-class interdimensional brothel, with a symbol that Ione points out as meaning 'Wishes granted here' - if you have a Wish diamond and the rest of some exorbitant price, presumably?

And then Ione pays over twenty platinum pieces just to be allowed to speak to the proprietor, and 200pp more for the enormous fiery proprietor to swear to absurd secrecy conditions, after which Ione goes off to negotiate in privacy with the proprietor...

...leaving Pilar alone in the waiting chamber of a high-class interdimensional brothel, with various things (mostly female insofar as they have an identifiable gender at all) trying to flirt with her and entice her into a dalliance that costs as much as a +2 headband of vast intelligence would cost a year earlier.

The actual 'SHOPPING' trip starts with Ione making a beeline for an enormous brass edifice with literal actual mithril fittings about it, some sort of absurdly high-class interdimensional brothel, with a symbol that Ione points out as meaning 'Wishes granted here' - if you have a Wish diamond and the rest of some exorbitant price, presumably?

And then Ione pays over twenty platinum pieces just to be allowed to speak to the proprietor, and 200pp more for the enormous fiery proprietor to swear to absurd secrecy conditions, after which Ione goes off to negotiate in privacy with the proprietor...

...leaving Pilar alone in the waiting chamber of a high-class interdimensional brothel, with various things (mostly female insofar as they have an identifiable gender at all) trying to flirt with her and entice her into a dalliance that costs as much as a +2 headband of vast intelligence would've cost a year earlier.