To Foxpearl there was no surprise at all. Her life experience as a spirit of mischief and mayhem was that law enforcement would shoot at her for practical reasons, and her life experience as a paragon of virtue on social media was that law enforcement would shoot at her for ideological reasons. What was the Eternal Tao but copaganda? She sniffily assesses Shifu's transformation. "Mid," she declares haughtily. The fact that she had added absurd quantities of mass out of nowhere, the fact that she got the internal organ dynamics of an enormously complex seaborn lifeform correct on the first try and also was able to adapt it into not suffocating on dry land, the fact that there was no telltale fox-tail - those were all weaknesses, actually. Transforming into the five most basic elements was a sign of spiritual purity and she hadn't eaten those grapes because desire was an aspect of samsara and she was far above such things. "Who's in charge here?" she called from behind her protective orca. She wasn't actually interested in the answer - the answer was capitalism - but she needed time and possibly Discourse to shake the Vermilion Princess out of her class awakening. "And what are their demands?"