"Not exactly." There's something very deliberate about those two words- maybe it's just the way she is, stiller than some dead things with a kind of bladed precision that skews her faint smile into something odd and out of place. (She is something odd and out of place.) "It's more of a networking endeavour."

They - or she, at least - have a little more to go on than just rumours and hearsay, and it can't hurt to establish contacts further through the city. Especially if they're thinking of being a little more forthright, ultimately, and in that case Deacon might be interested in being involved.