For a little while there's thoughtful silence, while Xuiyu drums her fingers on the desk. Raine's good people for most of the kedan, even as a Foreigner, and there were things down there that the kedan didn't understand.

"I want everything you find out," she said at last. "Whatever Malicant did--I want to know what it is, so we can stop it happening again, if we have to, without the help of Foreigners."