[Guizhong chuckles and slips her hand free of his, taking a couple of steps back and opening her arms in welcome.]

It is but a terribly ostentatious demonstration of the power of an accomplished adeptus like myself. [She pauses here and smiles crookedly, because she does not often boast in such a way and finds it amusing to hear it in her own voice.]

... But it is a place of refuge, and... somewhere that Rex could not see me hoarding things to take apart. [Zhongli is very much missed, but she had noted the occasional expression of dismay when he caught her deconstructing yet another toaster to see how it worked.]

Nothing can harm you here. This I swear.