"Jessic!" Chen manages to shout, leaping up with her empty teacup and sprinting out of the cabin to see what's happening. She considers pulling out her phone and texting in righteous outrage, or leaping over the bannister and flying right in Jessic's face perhaps. But then the lightning breath shoots out with a loud crack and the smell of ozone as a whole line of foxes finds themselves grounded and twitching. Chen's heart goes out to them as their poor fluffy tails fly all out of sorts with massive static, poofing up sharply without the regular lustrous sheen of a fully fluffed fox tail. Truly a dire fate. 

Moreover, there's Prim, Quick Ji and Blackleaf already carrying darling Rosepetal partially bound on the deck. Gosh and they're working overtime to double up the ropes and make it believable that they've really got her contained. Oh and there's an army of foxes advancing on the both of them, half of them somehow dressed in old-fashioned gangster suits and ties that had been in one of Jessic's animes Chen had briefly watched. Everybody in that one had been really well-dressed but they also drank a lot of alchohol, like a lot, yet never seemed to be bothered by it, and they all had a weird accent and acted all tough. Which is probably why the fox conspiracy had gone for the aesthetic, come to think of it. But the point was, the trio already had Rose and a gang of fox mafia were advancing on Chen.

"We surrender!" she shouted, sheathing her sword and putting her hands down by her side. It was the only thing to do really. The one sure way to minimize electrocuted fox devastation, ensure that Jessic calmed down enough to talk, and get to dress up Rosepetal as a bonus. 

Chen flung herself into Blackleaf's arms (she thought it was blackleaf at any rate. She hadn't actually gotten which one was which from Petal, but she figured that Blackleaf was the one with little black tufts on her ears and a black streak down one side of her fiery hair and at any rate she was cute enough to be flung into to preempt the advancing mob). She curled her tail around the fox's leg and gave her a smile that only looked a tiny bit predatory. 

"We surrender!" she said again, louder. "Hurry, get us dressed as gifts for Princess Jessic as quickly as possible, before she breathes lightning again. You'll want a palanquin, or at least a platform so you can hold us up over you and she won't attack you first. Oh yes, and you'll need to dress us up. I have it on very good, extremely reliable authority that proper offerings to a dragon have to be dressed up properly. Now last time, my sweet petal was a dainty little shrine maiden and I was dressed up in the poofiest princess dress, but that really doesn't fit the theme you've all got going on. Hm, no what I think Petal needs is a...um...what was it called in the anime, a 'flapper' dress. Made of silk, of course. I see you're already working on gagging her, that's good." Chen leans down from Blackleaf's arms and gives her Petal a gentle pat.

"Don't bother unbinding her, she can hop into any dress you've got for her. Don't make it too long either, stop right at the waist with just some thin silver tassel to really highlight her legs." Now Chen is touching those wonderful, strong legs for demonstration purposes, pulling Blackleaf with her because she's still in a state of surrender of course. "and what color for the main dress, hmm? We could do all silver, but I think it needs a little something more. How about Rose gold for your namesake, my sweet handmaiden? Rose gold with silver tassel, Jessic won't be able to resist a treasure like that. And I know you foxes do wish granting, so be sure that Petal gets all the fanciest embroidery and lace on her body, and I know she'll want it thin and diaphanous hanging on her. Give her a shawl too, but one that doesn't really cover anything, just more thin silk that adds to the mystique. And a headband with a silk veil to cover her face above the gag." 

Chen ponders, putting a finger to her chin and twitching her ears as foxes are already scrambling to fetch materials from below decks. "I'll take a suit. I think it's the right thing for this sort of offering, my vacation shirt is too casual. Black please, cut it thin at the waist and wide at the breasts and the butt. One button, no vest, but high collar shirt that's tight and shows off my curves. And don't make the pants legs too long, everybody always makes the pants legs too long for me! Also, get me a tie the same color as the twilight sky, you can manage that right? You'll need to bind me over all that of course, but it's important that I look formal for our dragon princess."

Chen settles herself into her surrender, tail still wrapped around Blackleaf's leg. "Alright, there we go girls, come on, come on, you've got a dragon waiting on you!"