Giri breathes out through her nose, smiling. Almost laughing. It's not that Kalaya said anything funny exactly, but she just really nailed what Giri was worried about, saw right through her in fact. So she had to feel kind of rueful about it. That yeah you got me emotion just written on her face for the world to see in this moment.

"Ha you're right." And she finishes breathing out and says it again, really meaning it. "You're right, really right. I worry so much about what people think of me, of my career of my choices, of all the things that others do and have done who share my path that forget I'm just me sometimes. But, you're absolutely right. I don't need to be anybody's curse or their prize, I get to choose for myself what's right."

[clearing Insecure]

Giri walks over to the tea set then, her stance finally a little more relaxed, her collar jingling in time with her natural movements but her attention firmly on Kalaya's tea set. "You know, I don't think the gods abandoned you at all. You called for them and they brought us together, and in a moment of quiet, in a garden even amid a Dominion ship. That's the sign of the flower kingdoms being behind us if I've ever seen it. In fact if what you just said about the Rakshasa is exactly accurate, you've set my mind quite at ease. I was still afraid it might be on the ship, under our noses, but if it's wreaking havoc out there [i]gestures with an expansive hand[/i] then it's made a terrible mistake. Because that means we're safe, this crew is safe, and we can figure out a way to hunt it."

Giri looks back at the tea cups again. "Tea reading is one of my specialties, but the trick with divination is that the signs are everywhere. The world is full of gods and spirits, and the heavens above always look down on us. Even if oddly at times" she adds, thinking of Fengye. "So, let's take one more look, shall we?" And Giri takes Kalaya's hand then with her own larger one, bringing the girl to the table as she picks up the little teacup and flings its contents overboard, collar jingle jangling madly with the motion even after she stops. She looks up and she looks out. At the wind, the clouds, the stars, the flight of birds, the sound of her own merry tinkling and she looks for all the signs of Kalaya's fate.

[Divination: 4+3+2=9. Giri learns a truth about Kalaya's fate that Kalaya doesn't know. Kalaya also learns the truth and may clear another condition.]