(I can't just contradict him! He could beat me up! He's much stronger than I am and he's in a gang to boot!

Does... does this mean I need to claim I'm Wei Wuxian now?)

"Are we claiming we're people we're not now? I'm Mal daughter of Maleficent!"

Huh, that was actually useful. She'll give Tetley a smile of approval in the unlikely event that she gets a chance unobserved.

"Wei Wuxian, Tetley, Bern," she says in an I-just-want-to-get-this-business-done voice.

"I named myself after my favorite brand of tea! The flavors are really strong even after you pick them out of the garbage. I wanted to have a name that reminded me of what makes me happy."

"My dad named me after his throuple drama."

"It's a family name."

"Don't know, don't care. We ready to go?"

The limo driver decides that he doesn't really care what a throuple is.

"If you don't have any last errands to run, get in the back, kids."

Wei Wuxian casually steals the car's hood ornament when the limo driver isn't looking.

On the one hand, Alida would kind of like it if Wei Wuxian would avoid starting fights. On the other hand, "random limo driver" is a way better target than anyone who matters. She'll give him a "you will get the lecture as soon as we're alone" eyebrow-raise and leave it at that.

This is a "who died and made you gang leader" facial expression back. 

Right. Bern, you're twice as big as he is -

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

She expects she can get him on her side anyway, but if not, it'll have to be her, Wei Wuxian, and her good friend Nail-Studded Bat in some unpatrolled hallway when Wei Wuxian doesn't know what's up - assuming of course that gentle persuasion doesn't end up working.

Limo not big enough that the driver's out of earshot, right?

It is not, they're all crammed in the backseat. 

There is also a table that was unfolded from the back of the driver's seat on which is an enormous bounty of a brightly-colored, plastic-wrapped thing that they may recognize from television as candy. 

Tetley unwraps one, puts it in her mouth, and savors it. 

Wei Wuxian shoves twelve candies in his mouth at once. 

"Hey, what's the deal with this stuff?" Alida says, carefully taking and unwrapping one as a you-aren't-the-boss-of-me-I-can-eat-it-whatever-you-say signal as she does.

It is probably poisoned and Bern should not have any until Tetley has tasted it for him and not died.

"It's candy. They have it in all the limos. Eat as much as you want."

Wei Wuxian, his mouth full, mumbles something that might be "you've gotta eat this it's so good."

Tetley mentally portions out a fifth of the candy and looks to see if anyone would object to her taking her share.

Nope! Alida has no objections, and once she's tried her first will indeed toss another piece to her and one to Bern. 

Then she'll have some, tasting it slowly this time. It is pretty good.

(OK, no, it's really good, but Alida has PRIORITIES here.)

This is unexpectedly good, so something else will be unexpectedly bad, because that's how it works. Especially since his new gang leader (???) is giving him some, so, shinies!

If she's being tossed candy Tetley is going to take a carefully measured fourth of it.