[ ... This sounds like she's trying to hire her for a long term thing. Is this a long term thing? If it is, it sound sneakingly like something Kieran would use to try and get her out of the Quarter, and there are times when she doesn't think he's wrong to want that, but at the same time ... ]

So this would be a ... permanent thing? Because if you just need someone to talk to right now, you don't have to pay me.