If this trip went smoothly without further issues, Shard planned to use the remaining daylight to wander the locale before temporarily giving up his exploration of Coldwater Port City and fully focus on returning to Tobesk to find ways to quickly augment his strength.
Though Miss Danester's divination suggested that Shard needed to embark on a distant journey, divinations were not always correct, and he had no need to waste too much time in a strange city.
As for being able to handle the commission in a distant harbor city, that was because Mrs. Lemer's deceased distant relative, Mr. Lemer, had left his will with a friend, who happened to live locally.