A chance to see another world? "Hell yeah, I want," she says, eagerly, touched by his offer. Lan Wangji is reserved, sure, but he'd joked with her earlier and he opted to come spend time with her outside, so she's going to take this all as a win.

For the foundling of the Ninth, where the only people to pay her any attention was a gruff old soldier and her childhood enemy, any hand outstretched in friendship is one to enthusiastically grasp.

The glance she turns on him, though, is a little rueful. "You sound like you miss it, kinda."