Swamped

You don't manage to get a better idea than just watching, so you do. You also keep an eye out for someone else to talk to, both because you may still need to get the informant's attention and because it might help you evade notice.

The customer with the strap seems to briefly exchange glances with the one concealing a sword. Working together, perhaps? Or do they simply know each other from elsewhere?

But it only lasts a moment. Your quarry sits down at a table relatively close to the stage. There are three others already there, but you don't see any particular signs they recognize each other.

You do, however, see someone at the next table get up only a moment later. Coincidence? Or coordination?

You glance back and forth between the person with the strap and the person who just got up, waiting to see if either of them does something.