((Also puts my hand on the timestamps and shakes your hand with my other hand :')))

[ Vandalism is still bad probably, but the way Chloe puts it makes Gray a bit more sympathetic to her reasoning. Still bad, but she gets it. ]

I see... I'm sorry you have to deal with all this at once.

[ The getting ejected from her home world. The sudden onset of what looks like war. Every Shard-Bearer shares these experiences, but the old hands like Gray at least had plenty of time to adjust before things started breaking down between the cities.

She turns, offers the brush back handle-first, a bit of a somber air quieting her expression. ]

Please be careful. Even if you're just painting, the citizens will probably be hostile if they see you like this.