Thanks for your comment! Have you tried talking to the innkeeper behind the counter? 🙂 There's different dialogue if you talk to her in front of the counter and behind the counter.
Sorry for the trouble! I was trying to reward players for being extra curious, but it ended up causing some confusion. (In the past, I played some games in which a shopkeeper has different dialogue behind the counter, and I thought that was funny, so I used it as an opportunity to hide a puzzle.)