"Maybe. I should mention Amelia is the granddaughter of a king. I don't know how you feel about working for an actual government, even freelancing for a short while."

He's friends with Amelia and her father, and had met Amelia in the context of 'well, she's traveling with the other people with bounties on their heads, and it is nice to have someone with actual white magic along when things start getting serious'. But Zelgadis is well familiar with the difference between 'my friend Amelia' and Princess Amelia of Saillune, even if they are technically the same person.