Aliyah worked to keep her face as neutrally-ungawking as possible, but it was becoming difficult, and she found herself adjusting her veil repeatedly to make sure it wasn't coming undone to give someone the impression that her business skills today were somewhat....lacking.
A neutral face, she reminded herself with a mental scolding. A neutral face, regardless of price. When you show surprise, you give them the idea that you're worth less than what they're offering, and considering that both of them were foreigners of sorts, they were more unpredictable than what she could usually pick out.
Neutral, unfortunately, was not what she managed to maintain when 40 copper was thrown into the lot. When 1 was the original price, she was not expecting for the sudden jump, yet there it was. Her original feeling was that of agitation. How dare he start so low when he was capable of more! But then she bit back those feelings, reminding herself that everyone needed a good deal now and then, so perhaps that's exactly what he had been looking for.
She got her wits back around her while the two spoke. Then the purse of money came out and she lost her neutral face all over again, mouth opening slightly as she stared. Damn damn and double damn! How was she supposed to keep herself business-like in the face of these two when they kept--
Her attention snapped back at the mention of commissions. Business deals, potential longterm business deals. Something she couldn't act like a slack-jawed idiot for. She pulled the statue of the worm onto her lap to give a little extra attention, brushing dust and sand from it. It was her gesture to the less-foreign foreigner that he could have it. Pleased as she was that someone had finally decided to take one of her stranger pieces (for she certainly received an inner joy to carve more peculiar pieces, though most preferred the typical types of good-luck things and what-have-you), she would miss how proudly it protected the rest of what she carved! Reminding herself of the look in its eye, Aliyah gave it a kiss of parting on its stone head, with the fabric of her veil in between, and offered it forward to the man who wanted it.
"I can make whatever you desire, honored guests. My hands know few if any boundaries, and they feel truly blessed when given something truly exciting to carve." She looked to Tatsu who clearly had an idea of what he was wishing for in his mind. "Setting gems is very easy, though, of course, I will need to either have these gems provided or be allowed the time to gather them, the span certainly dependent on what you're desiring. I can set, I can carve, I can do anything you're wishing with whatever you would desire. Time is irrelevant to me, so whatever you please. Complicated simply means more fun, now doesn't it?" She began to pull small pebbles from a bag she kept with her, samples of the stones she could carve, ranging throughout the vast majority of different stones with even some peculiar pieces set in such as petrified wood. She had a few semi-precious stones, but she would certainly be willing to work with any other stone she didn't have, be it precious or otherwise, and she let them both know this as she started to ramble off the business-esque detailings of what she could and couldn't do.