[Around her? Mayuko has to have a think about that. Parsing anything about the Byzantine city government through her location and interactions would take more hours than anyone sane would allocate in a day. The Alliance... well, considering how the guild treated the Starfallen... that would have been something to keep tabs on. Still.]

That's not much encouragement for me to keep them around. At this rate, the only thing you'll be learning about is what's at the bottom of Tentacle Monster Lake.