Ankyra Sound Oh wait, I'm the rookie?

"My mother. She liked things like that; stars, plants, rocks, anything to do with nature," she answered quietly. She had tried to remember her mother in happy times as when she had taken Rayen and her other children out to count stars. She tried not to remember her mother as the look of betrayal on her face when Rayen refused to marry her intended. 

"What's your trade? Or the trade you are working for?" Small talk was not her forte, she didn't know much about these trade things. She figured it a polite question, he could decline to share his interests if he so chose.