[quote=@Tatterdemalion][b]Rain![/b]

Bai gives you a sideglance. Weighing you up. "Why?" she finally asks. "Has someone been giving you trouble? They shouldn't. You live way too high up for that, and as long as you're thoughtful about where you go into basements, you shouldn't... unless someone's been telling you about the Flower War? Look, that's... a mess. They're fighting over who gets to fill the role of the big boss down there, who gets to have tense tea ceremonies with Empress and occasionally fight her for the honor of everybody involved with all that, and it's going to get messy, and you should try to stay out of it, okay? It'll blow over, or Empress will sort it out once she gets back."

She definitely knows more about this than she's telling you, but she's [i]concerned[/i] about you. Like you might break a nail, or get yourself kidnapped, or something like that. She thinks [i]you[/i] are the rich girl damsel in distress here.

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Hey. Hey now. Excuse you, she has totally interacted with a gang member recently and, well, he thought he was dead and she was also incognito and maybe, just [i]maybe[/i], Bai has... a tiny bit of a point. She's kind of out of her element.

But also! Also. Also. This is how you learn. And get better. And practice. Which is to say. She's not giving up! In spite of that nibbling doubt there. And besides...

"It's for work, actually! We have to go down into the tunnels. And I saw some painted stuff and carved stuff and well. I kinda want to know the basics? There's security and they're cool but also, like, ew. You know?"