⟪ there is potentially nothing more suspicious than to be specifically told that he is not an underground faction leader – but he does offset that highly negative impression with a a somewhat polite nod and an acknowledgement of her royal status.

listen, she has to take what she can get in this place.

she takes the identification offered, expecting something like the papers provided by the earth kingdom nobility with their insignias and signatures – and oh boy, she could not have been more wrong. she recognises a wanted poster when she sees one, having had her soldiers plaster the earth kingdom with them during her search for her brother and uncle, and she is almost shamed to admit that the number under his name far, far exceeds the reward she meant to offer for those traitors.

she folds it back up quite neatly and hands it back to him. he could be quite useful indeed, depending on which crimes granted him this questionable honour. ⟫

I am not stressed, Katsura. ⟪ she grits it out, as if the mere suggestion is offensive.

she is so stresed it has been doing a number on her mind, in fact, but that is only partially due to this place. ⟫ My father has entrusted the nation to me. This is nothing to one such as myself.

⟪ that said, the wanted poster seems to have impressed her enough to temporarily keep her from ending that statement in a death threat of sorts.

well, that and her having a rather pressing question. ⟫

What is an alien?