The marketplace outside the palace was bustling at noon, stalls lining the road that led into the walls of the royal complex. Housewives mingled with shopkeepers, and Lilaena walked among them all, reveling in the life that flourished just out of reach of all of the death that lived outside the walls of Iziz City.

She stopped at a silversmith's stall, shaded from the hot sun by a striped blanket that had been pegged to the uprights of the collapsible structure. Some of the designs used were... familiar in a way. Lilaena pulled one necklace from the rack and dangled it from her fingers, looking at the charm that hung from the impossibly thin chain. "You did not make this..?" The woman smiled at the stubble faced boy tending the stall.

"Oh no, no miss, I didn't. That's the master's work, sure enough." The smith's apprentice wrung his cap in his hands, and then reached over to carefully hold up the charm to a bit of light that shone through a hole in the blanket. "See the way the silver shines? 'Tis a very old design, miss, but the polishin' technique is all our own. No where else in Iziz will you find silver that shines as bright as Master Tam's. The chain..." Lilaena let him hold the necklace as he strained over the makeshift table to properly show it off, "the chain is a new design, one that is half as thick with twice the strength. This'un won't be breakin' any time soon, miss."

Lilaena looked at the necklace again, and shook her head. "It does shine, but perhaps it is a little too flashy for me." She indicated her cream colored tunic and pants. She had left A'na Eldhil's cloak at her apartment, for the weather was simply too hot. It made her feel like she was walking about naked, without it's comfortable weight around her shoulders. However, it would have made her stand out, and that was one thing she did not wish to do on this day.

The apprentice's face fell a little bit, but then brightened. "Well, how about this one?" He fumbled with the rotating rack, and showed her a nearly identical piece. "This one was rubbed with a special solution - makes it look antique. It's still polished, and first rate silver, but..."

Lilaena grinned, "Yes, I love it!" The exchange of credits was quickly undertaken, and she stepped away, holding her new charm up to the noon sun. The intricate design was very similar to a sketch of a talisman of concentration that A'na Eldhil had drawn for her once. Nestled into the charm was a little green stone that sparkled in the light. All in all, it was a fascinating find.

The woman undid the clasp and put her hands behind her neck to put the necklace on. Her eyes were on the palace gates, which were open on market day. Certain sellers even got to show their wares to the Queen herself, but that was of no concern to her. The Jedi meandered through the stalls in the large stoneflagged courtyard outside of the palace, walking ever closer to the gates.