[But you must understand, a 'vixen' must never reveal her true thoughts. Diao Chan doesn't want to manipulate him, especially if he sounds like he's been through so much. It's all for the better, though. Everything she does is eventually for the better of everyone. Including her mental notes on the greying clouds. She'll have to interpret that later. It must mean something. Everything here means something.]

Monsters? I've never seen them before... [She has. She's fought them. Her attacks are ranged and focus on crowd control, so they can never swarm her.] You must do a very good job at keeping them at bay, then. [Zhang Liao's uncertainty of whether he can settle well into a land of peace works incredibly well for Diao Chan-- in the sense that she needs a way to get to Cao Cao. It's not good in the sense that she genuinely wants him (and a lot of people) to be happy, but. Well.

She's basically going to ruin Lu Bu, anyway. The suffering of a few for the good of the majority. She has to remember that. The Han Empire must return.]

Is that what you've been doing today, then? Hunting monsters... not many come out this far into the forests. [Even if it's a previously-built path, the ground is beginning to be overrun by plants. Or perhaps it's the result of Diao Chan's dancing.]