"Isn't that when the platform chairs carried by half-naked men get useful? I guess that wouldn't make shopping any easier, though," Pepper remarks almost absently, tearing her gaze away from China to scan the crowd and the surrounding architecture. Her focus sharpens a little as she watches one of the Igheeri begin to climb the column of a building.

"What would you do," she begins, swiveling back to the Irish mage, "if I told you there might be a slow but mega big change of pace in Keeliai?"