"To be blunt, yes," he crosses his arms, looking thoughtful, "when we tried using Inquiry, we found that there are even spirits here that are listening and watching."

There were ways around it, if they were careful, but there seemed little in the way of planning they'd managed to do anyway. Not since the other Wei Wuxian had died horribly in the midst of one of their attempted infiltration missions.

"We've been passing notes," he grins, "we were always good at that, right?"