Firo! Trouble issues from the mouth. [A man may dig his grave with his teeth. Nihuang subsides just as quickly, looking back at her incomplete homework with disapproval. What was a little while ago only a tedious task is now cast in more ominous light, and she can't help but wonder what someone more clever would make of this situation?]

It isn't that I don't agree with your feelings, [she means: sorry for scolding,] but if anything were to happen, I'm certainly not ready for it. I don't like to think about the sickness. [That's really the problem for her here. It's taken the research winds right out of her sails. To Aunt Jing,] Since the three of us are at a disadvantage, perhaps there is something more useful we could be doing to prepare for the future. Properly testing Aunt Jing's power or developing a secret code. Testing our hosts.