Grimacing slightly, Zen hands the reins over to his traveling companion, pausing to quickly flex his sore limbs one last time - it would not be particularly fitting to arrive in the inn and immediately fall over from joint-lock.

"Yeah, we'll take care of that. I swear, by the end of this trip I'll either match your resilience or turn into an arthritic grandmother..."

With that dire prophecy suitably delivered, he fishes the pouch of coins out from inside his robes and heads for the inn's main entrance.

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Hmm. Might have to put training that Linguistics charm on hold. I'd ask whether this counts as training resistance, but that would take a week or more, apparently...

I'm pretty sure we'll want to tweak that, as having Lotus be able to master an entire Martial art style in the same time-frame it takes him to increase an ability from 4 to 5 seems somewhat... well, bizarre. Maybe make out-of-caste abilities take a number of days of training instead?