[Someone Wysteria is familiar with is Valentine Nicasius Maxence Mérovée Olivier de Foncé, who chooses this moment to approach the two of them and say, in Orlesian,]

Beware: the Madame's 'few minutes' are usually many minutes. She will leave you very much alone if you are not clever enough to keep her close.

[Should he be exercising more caution? For what! This is a city. There are surely many, many different languages being spoken. So what is one more? No one will notice a new and strange one, it will blend right in to all of the conversating going on around them.

Despite the use of his mother tongue, Val gives every other appearance of being entirely comfortable. A bit overinterested, perhaps, in the way he is looking around at everything, and making notes in his little writing book that he has with him. But who could blame him? This is a new city. While he might be happier amongst an unexplored ruin or an unmapped jungle, there is still an excitement at setting foot in some new and foreign region.

And certainly the district is a choice.

Val tears a pamphlet from the wall and holds it out to Wysteria. With familiar directness:]

Explain this.