[ anyone who's observant can see that khun tsks at the thunder, but he seems to be in good spirits besides. his fit today is somewhat formal, white buttoned shirt with a tie, slacks and a light jacket. they're going to an estate after all, and his hair down but kept away from his face with a braid. he's also on his broom which no one here has ever seen him on, so truly he's making concessions all around today.

he chuckles at jing yuan's very dramatic statement. ]

Frankly I'm wounded he's not going to at least provide us with drinks before stabbing us in the back. If I had to take a guess without any data, he wants to test out a new technology or experiment with the very likely probably he'll be able to get our mana stones out of it.

It's a benefit for him either way, which was all our relationship was to this point, Jing Yuan. He wanted to feel us out and I wanted to feel him out. There's nothing simpler in noble politics.

[ just to put that to rest. ]

I'm assuming you don't want to run five scouts, so the rest of us would be approaching from the front to buy the scouts time? Or did you have something else in mind?