Can ask him via note or in person, depending on which he would respond to better. Asking him along as an experienced tactician and spy, and because good lord she has so many rogue types and they might need a warrior to help hold things together. She'd also like his opinions on how her bardlets go when they all return.

She will mention the chefs to him being a boon for morale and that she has heard rumours about them, but they are a guarded secret of Oleastro and potentially also trapped. She doesn't know they are tal vashoth though, ah.