"You're very interesting! The first person I've ever met who has a home in a sewer and a giant pet rat! Not to mention how the bugs and animals seem to listen to you. Their behavior was so strange! Even more interesting is that you're a 'sewer bum', yet you can ballroom dance? What a strange combination! That doesn't sound like a skill typical to someone of, ah...your station. Of course, I'm not the most knowledgeable about the Serenian social hierarchy and what skills are typical or not among your people."
Mei paused her sketching to jot a couple notes, written in the intricate Thanati characters. Just a few memos to herself to find out more about that.
"Anyway, about me! You're not far off, actually! I'm on a quest for knowledge, yes. And I guess you could say it's a spiritual quest, too. So many people separate the two, but really, spirituality and knowledge go hand in hand. I'm a temple scholar, you see, hoping to one day become a Zhaobin! It's a lofty goal, but I'd settle on priestess, too. Either way, yes, it's a spiritual calling of mine to travel the world and learn what I can and just live, you know? Oh, I love nothing more than reading in a library, don't get me wrong, but reading about plants and animals and cities isn't the same as touching them and experiencing them."
Her sketching stopped then, and she looked over her work. "Knowledge is the path to enlightenment, after all, and there's holiness in all Inima's creation. She's life itself, after all."