Of all the things Mary had been expecting from this conversation, a helping hand in Inn defenses was not one of them. This was a conversation that Lex or the Innkeeper should have had, but that wasn't possible given his current situation. The issue was, even if she were given a mountain of gold on a silver platter, she would not be able to accept on behalf of the Inn. She was literally restricted by the system in what she could do - though those restrictions had eased up regarding certain topics as of late.
At the same time, while she did not think that Eclipse would need to probe them if she wanted to harm them in any way, asking such a question as a Dao Lord was borderline an attack on its own!
It wasn't that the question in itself was harmful, Mary could just deny it. But that, as a Dao Lord, one needed to be cautious about everything. There was literally no way of knowing what an enemy was capable of, so one's guard needed to be always up.
