(Moving this over here, because I don't want to derail whatever Peregrine has planned, and I just feel like I'm interrupting Peregrine over there... If something interesting happens otherwise, Talia will speak up about it over there, but for the conversation with Iolair, I think continuing it here is best. At best, what she'd be doing over there is creating conflict, for fun.))
Talia notices Iolair seeing through her illusion and trying to hide the fact. "I'm sorry, would you like for me to put on some real clothes? I haven't worn real clothes for well over a year, since I learned this trick from a neighboring maga who does much the same. Answering your question," she continues on, without making an effort to really cover up or do anything and not giving it much of a thought until he says yes, one way or another. "Answering your question, the Mediterranean is beautiful. It's almost like a gentle lake compared to the Atlantic. Indeed, my original ship was ill-suited to the storms, and we were shipwrecked soon after wards. We spent a winter in Lisbon. I had the means to conjure another ship, but not her sails, rigging, anchor or other attendant parts of the ship. Nor did I have the means to pay for those things. Fortune later smiled on us, after our winter in Lisbon." When Talia says 'Fortune later smilled' she's making it very clear, without stating it explicitly that she came by those things in a less than honest method.