The laugh and the comment gets a rise of his brow. The man was used to the idea of having an escort like this, hm? Didn’t sound happy about it either, based on the tone in his laugh. Not common for tailors to be familiar with, not in his experience, anyway. As the man continued he texted again sympathetically.

I’m sure it is, even those of us who prefer quiet are more accustomed to some small level of background noise. True silence is another experience entirely.

Glancing around, he started their path towards the neighborhood he was reasonably sure Rhy had meant. The mage was keeping an eye on the path and the surrounding people. No one acting suspicious… No one seemed to be following... Unless they were really good at it. Maybe he’s paranoid, but curses weren’t exactly uncommon in his experience. Then again, this world also was prone to weird shit based on what he’d seen since arriving and heard from before that.

I’d like to ask if you’ve had any altercations or disagreements recently, anything unresolved that might have incited someone to cause this?

The why was nagging at him most, it usually did. Why would anyone cause a tailor to go deaf? His second concern being if there were more stages to whatever this was.