"Lucky you," Lux said, before she could stop herself, then tried to shift the subject before the human could ask for details. The last thing she needed was to get started on the civil war. "My friend is a translator. She has quite a few professional bad days under her belt." It was easier for them to talk about Mariko's work than just about anything else, lately, so Lux had heard quite a bit of it. "What do you do, professionally?"