The Vench contemplated for a moment letting the elf go through alone, finding some other place to run, some hiding spot to bunk down for the moment. There was no indication that the authorities were after him - she might at least spare one person's life in all this craziness. But EV was not that noble. The idea of facing those men on her own, of spending her last days alone and helpless, were not ones she fancied. In the end, if it meant even the slightest chance of survival, she would drag the elf down with her. And that was the dirtiness of her soul. Sad that she would still metamorphize into a beautiful butterfly all the same. Life was ironic like that.

She let her analytical mind settle over all those dark thoughts, shoving them into some untouched reach. And the small room suddenly got a whole lot smaller as a giant caterpillar joined Lefo among the mops and buckets. She managed to squeeze in without anything poking her, but it was not a happy home for a Vench. The elf was squinting at a computer screen with an expression that did not bode well for either of them. If she had hands, EV would almost definitely be massaging out a building stress migraine right now.

"Where are we?" she moved closer to 'look' over the elf's shoulder.

Central Municipal Hall Janitorial Management System
Of course. Nothing was ever that easy. But at least she had her bearings now; several times in the past they had held conferences for the upper officials, while the men twirled their pencils and gleamed off anything that might advance the wealth and success of Centerpiece. It had never bothered her before, but she realized now that not once had they cared about anything beyond their precious little city - had not even stepped into Ruin to do a thing. Until now. Now something in Ruin definitely had their attention.

Outside the door behind them, moving shadows obscured the tiny crack of light. The uneven hurrying of foot steps and the squeak of cart wheels. It did not sound like the high efficiency tak-tak-tak of the most populated levels of the Municipal Hall. She looked closer at the screen. "How much feedback to do you think this thing has into the central computer system? We should be able to pull up some kind of diversion."

Nothing big, just enough to draw a bunch of janitors and free the hallways outside. EV attempted to survey their confinement. "Think you can scrunge up a uniform from all this?"