Valdis waiting until the two children had settled, her eyes on her paperwork, pretending to read reports as she contemplated how to address them.

"I have a request to make of the two of you," she said, gathering the spread papers into a pile and lifting them to tap them into a neat stack. "I need the two of you to to be my eyes and ears on the streets. Something that you can't do in costume."

Her eyes lifted to settle on Chat. "I know that your real identities are secret." Then her gaze shifted to Ladybug, "But not to me."

She set the papers to the side.

"The cultists believe that two costumed people are looking for them, the last thing they'd be on the lookout for is two children."

In theory at least.