[Coraline merely shimmies her shoulders with a pleased little smirk.] I got a patron. One of the other 'honoured guests' -[complete with airquotes, for emphasis on how stupid the title is]- vouched for me so I could come work at the festival instead of going to the mountain to dig up rocks or something.

[She lowers her leg and draws the other up so she can fold them under all the spare fabric.] So I'll just have to see if I can't pester Geralt and Majima to tell me about it when they get back.

[She knows what hard labour does to people, and she feels like those two would do best with it. Alucard seems a little too prissy to come back mostly unscathed.]