Lee is used to listening raptly to things others might find boring. Silence, for one, is a chief thing to pay keen attention to while meditating. Contemplating impossible questions and ruminating over hours-long lessons from elders was all fair game. The history of her temple had been told to her enough times that she'd lost count, and she'd listening at each telling.

But there's something about hearing the words 'exports industry' and 'expanding' and 'prosperous' that is just entirely the opposite of the sort of boring she's used to. So there's no proper defense against eyes glazing slightly or her faintly incredulous stare towards the young girl who just gave her - to Lee - the speech of an affluent merchant trying to impress. "That...sounds good." It's said as though it's a question, as if Lee's not entirely sure that is good except from Ayleth's tone of conveying it. "And no, never been. Or if I did, I never learned the name.

"I meant more...what's the land like? Where do you usually sit when you're outside? Are there animals?" Things that matter. Let's have no more talk of exporting copperware.