Měihóu Niángniang
"Oh, not at all, sweetie." Měihóu cheerily turned, offering them peaches from the basket. "Oh, of course not, heavens no." She laughs off the second question, seeming quite surprised. She bites into one of her own candied peaches, then mumbles around it, "Can't imagine anyone trying to get in at all."
At the mention of reinforcement party, Měihóu seemed to have an expression that would only be slightly more confused if Sienna had claimed to be the great beast reincarnated, returned from beyond the moon to lay devastation down upon the world. "Huh?"
As soon as her name was said, the confusion disappeared from Měihóu's face, instantly replaced with pain. "OW OW OW OW OW... Hate premature triggered recall.. So.. So much... Owww..." Leaning against a nearby wall and massaging her head furiously, Měihóu took in a sharp breath between gritted teeth. "You guys were really close to having your cover blown there. Protip, I change my memories to suit my current objective. The best lie is the truth." Regardless, she followed the two.
Then, as the Imperator began her speech, Měihóu gave a pause for a moment. She glanced in the direction of the Imperator, a slight shiver running down her back.
Then, taking out a peach from her basket before ditching it, she brought out her staff and gave it a good twirl. She tossed the peach into the air, before striking it with her staff to a loud crack that blended into the distant remains of the fireworks. It arced up into the sky far further than it had any right to.
Then she broke out into a run, "Keep up! If you can't, I'll be a peacock. :P" She stuck her tongue out, turning to look at the twins for a moment before sprinting forward further. She quite quickly parkour'd her way through a building, and by the time she had reached their mutual destination, she had transformed herself while out of sight into a flamboyantly dressed person in blue and white, peacock feather fan in hand, and was walking normally, not out of breath or sweating.
About one hundred and eight seconds after launch, a strangely transmuted peach would land precisely on the railing in front of the Imperator, if no one had tracked its progress through the sky and blocked it. Which, let's be honest, was most likely. It was light as a feather but hard as stone, and its precision of flight was preternatural.
It read in crude gray letters, "Monkey was here" next to a chibi stone monkey doing a peace sign.
