Seditious ranting, hm? Her eyebrows lift, curious, but she doesn't dare say a thing. Dave already impressed on her that they're always being watched, and comparisons to Nineteen Eighty-Four already came up together with the requisite Battle Royale reference. She's watching her tongue.

Taking the safer subject, she says, "I'll look forward to it then. Once I'm adjusted to whatever is waiting for me outside the arena, or as much as I can be at the start, I'll hunt you down and rope you into a shopping trip." Perhaps she can dissuade him out of the dangers of open sedition with it, she thinks.

"In the meanwhile, do you have any idea how we might get down from here? I would just use magic, but I'm not looking forward to being accosted by bats for the trouble."