You realize the meat is a mixture of beef and pork, and you wonder if your co-worker knows that. It'd be a bit like you eating a monkey after all. Would it be rude to ask? Maybe if you do it in a roundabout way it won't come off badly.

You ask Emogen if she's ever had Char Siu before.

"Oh yeah, those little chinese meat buns? I love those things!"

Well, for better or for worse that answers that. As Emogen goes into a recipe for Char Siu you wonder if Tamako would like the pork bun better than something like this meat pie. It starts to make you a bit worried again. You hope she can find something to eat while out with Kamiko in the other city. What do mimes eat anyway? Mimes are french right? French food?

To distract you from the worry, you ask Emogen what she thinks of the mystery of the missing clown-mime-jester royalty so far.

"Something does seem off, doesn't it? How does a princess just up and disappear. You'd think she'd have some kind of escort, or that someone would have noticed her." She says between a bite of pie, "If no one took her, then she's trying not to be found. But why?"

You ask if it might have something to do with her being part Clown. You still aren't convinced the ruins don't have something to do with this.

"I mean anything is a possibility at this point." Your porcine co-worker says, spearing one of the cooked carrots out of the pastry.

Since you are at a tavern anyway, you wait for one of the waitresses to bring you over some water and ask if she knows anything about the whereabouts of The Jester King's daughter.

"Lulu? She hasn't been by in a bit." She says a bit sadly. "And here we wanted to celebrate the completion of her first story, only for her to go missing."

"Oh? Did she come here often?" Emogen asks.

"Every so often yeah. She likes to frequent all the businesses around here." The waitress says, pouring you more water from a pitcher. "When she visits it usually means packed tables and lot's of tips."

As the waitress continues on her way Emogen remarks, "Huh, guess she's pretty popular. If she's hiding here in town, it's probably somewhere that there aren't a lot of eyes. Hopefully she hasn't fallen in with a bad crowd."