"Your secret's safe with me," Miyume said with a soft laugh. "If that should happen, anyway. You seem like you know what you're doing. Am I right?"

Haruka would be able to hear the easy kindness in her tone but there was something about it that suggested no help would come from her corner.

"I wouldn't want to familiarize myself with this place with a crowd here either. It's awkward enough to navigate."

Her voice held a ring of certainty, as if she were speaking from personal experience.