Castle Doctrine
Dahlour Castle, Dahlour's Gard, The Commonwealth of the Rose
Rui
"Shit, you actually came. I thought the guards might have scared you off or something," she said, not bothering to lower her voice once the window was closed. She was wearing some loose-looking grey gym clothes and had her raven black hair down instead of in the knot she wore during the matches. It was much longer than Rui thought, coming down to her waist.
On the TV was some kind of show that used live actors and stop-motion puppets. A man was fleeing from a giant astride a dragon, by all appearances, before it abruptly cut to a commercial. It was loud enough they probably wouldn't be heard unless someone had trained their hearing.
"Let's just say one of my Aunties is the stealthiest woman in the world," Rui boasted a little. Admittedly, Xu only managed to teach Rui the basics of suppressing her qi before Rui shipped out for the Expedition, and they'd barely interacted since.