[ She held it delicately between her fingers, and looked at it suspiciously, even though it was really just a sweetbun. ]

Do you think that a festival for commerce and city planning would be exempt from serving poisoned sweets?

[ Sighs. ]

I suppose here it might be.

[ Which. Probably said a lot about the type of person he was talking to. It isn't that she thought that the event itself would be an exemption to such a thing, but instead, that this place would make it so. After all, a celebration for commerce in city planning in Praes would likely come with an entire gamut of horrors for most here. From the expression of offering treats to bureaucrats, and seeing who is foolish enough to eat them without precautions, to slaughtering debtors in a blood sacrifice for protection over merchant caravans... Praes was...

Unique.

Still, she didn't eat it quite yet. ]

Perhaps I will have to see if you react to it for a bit, before I enjoy your treat, hm?