Cless Gretchen is a cleric in service to the central church. She works as an assistant to the historian Salman in the slave market city Ishtal. She appears to be pursuing the whereabouts of a certain book.

You suddenly bump into her, still thinking about where the book is. "Oops!" She dropped her cleric's wand, and you drop your shield. "Oh my stars, I am so, so sorry! I was just thinking about something..."