[@KatherinWinter] In this case, Bastian wants you to keep the idea you're enslaved to him as a secret. One option to gain sympathy that may be something she can suggest/tell to Bastian, if she were to say "What if I we're to say, I'm escaping from a beastkind here who has me enslaved. I need refuge." and since this city is clearly divided down race lines to the point of building for war. This could be an effective method to gain entrance and not have anyone question your presence.

And, she can't know who to approach. She's presumed to change her appearance frequently. I wanted to let you have a little more control, and let you roleplay through it. Whether by inferring from my direction, or if you'd be so inclined. Come up with such yourself. (Maybe you somehow recognize somebody you shared a cell with. Who just so happens to be the person in question. I dunno. I don't mind a little impromptu story building from the other side.) I don't want to lead everything, if you wanted to have some direction. You could do so in this case. But the person in question, is very much there. (least how I was going to write it, if you wanted to simply go with the flow of how I'd write the scenario.) And if/when I come there. I'll know them immediately. (how, I won't spoil. Because where's the fun in that? ;P)