Buying made sense, practically speaking. Raine had enough of a grasp of how things could backfire for half-elves in Tethe'alla that even if things were not quite the same here, she would have been loath to give someone predisposed to dislike them that power over them.

The permanency that the arrangement suggested had occurred to her only later. Raine hadn't brought it up yet, didn't know how much Solomon had meant by it or if it really had been just the most practical thing. She wasn't sure if she wantedto outright question it; the thought would keep.

So she held his arm, and her peace, and waited for his intentions in the here and now to become clear. Which were-- "Instruments?" she said with some surprise, looking up to him. That made a strange sort of sense, actually; she was surprised it hadn't occurred to her sooner.