[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/4y69RxS.png?1[/img][/center][right][hr][color=gray][b]Guixiang, City of Living Rubies[/b]
Present Day[/color][hr][/right]
[indent][i][color=C4484C]Seriously?[/color][/i]

Shuozhen’s eyes carefully looked to the boy who had just said his piece and honest was unsure what the [i]point[/i] of making such words was in the first place. Not only was the boy being [i]glib[/i] in the presence of a goddess-queen of sorts, he had for reasons unknown to the rest of them revealed he had [i]doubted[/i] said goddess-queen’s motivations. It was hard to refuse the natural unease with the current situation. After all, she had no idea what kind of response their ‘host’ would make despite the boy’s attempts to be formal and courteous. Shuozhen’s instincts told her to be on her guard and to be ready for anything – she hadn’t survived this long outside of the Blessed Isle without learning about the world and those within it.

She knew that the meeting could go either way, though Shuozhen was not going to risk her neck for a stranger of no consequence; even if he was a child. She just hoped their host brushed off such indigination. [/indent]