[ Annaliese's smile doesn't let up for a second – she just beams with the easy confidence of a girl who's used to bluffing and charming her way into getting what she wants. She has a good feeling about this courier and her gruff, grouchy steed and out here, without her usual way of being so sure of things, she has nothing but her gut to rely on if she wants to get ahead.

So she doesn't look relieved, precisely, by Su Fei's response. Just pleased. ]

Please, just call me Annaliese. I don't think there's much call for formalities when all of us are in much the same boat. And yours?