Dinner was cooked by the witch's chef using the bear Shard had hunted in the Sicarl Mountains, and even Mia got a share. The relic trade that evening went off without any other incident.
The doctor indeed had more influence; the person in charge of the Correspondence Circle Mage group from Zaras Literary Academy in Tobesk, a chatty man in his thirties named Neil Young, had already thought through the details of the trade.
After a brief discussion, the final settlement was that Shard received 102 pounds of compensation, completing the trade of the "Corpse-Hiding Mirror" and the "Traveler's Gate."
To bring that heavy door with a metal base home, Shard had to spend a lot of money renting a carriage. The doctor drove the carriage to No. 6, Saint Delan Square, then called Luviya, who was doing astrology on the third floor, to help carry the door upstairs.
