The teeth would have been a bit unsettling had this conversation been occurring in the middle of the marketplace back home. But Aifaran was full of fantastic sights and people that Alice could only dream of. A child who was also some manner of ...octopus? Squid? Alice wasn't sure what the difference was.

"That's quite remarkable," she mused. Technology really must progress so rapidly from her time on.

"Did you want to buy it?"

If it really was a little piano, Alice wouldn't mind trying to recall her lessons. But she had no intention in standing in someone else's way - this child seemed more keen and knowledgeable of it anyhow.