Caio can't decide what to think about the Peruvian situation. Was Lima negligent in some way, in that case it might make sense, but if they weren't it's a very escalatory move. It's a very escalatory move anyway, nobody's going to - well, most people aren't going to - consider it Lima being bad actors if they kill the bag girl for her bags. Though possibly they don't know where her room is? Maybe she's trying to bargain with them and that's just not filtering through the rumor mill.

Basira doesn't gossip; she has the mind of an investigator. She can listen carefully and ask careful questions and not bring up any months-old events at all.

The big enclaves aren't sterling, trusted authority figures, but they are points of stability. You always know what you're going to get, when you deal with New York or Shanghai or London. They're predictable. At least, they're meant to be. Hira doesn't have to overhear much to wonder if her class has been dealt an unusually bad hand. Shanghai sounds like it's been rocked by this death, and whatever is going on with New York deserves further attention- but it's not like she can handle that alone. She'll need to talk to Jaipur's upperclassmen about this.