>"Like I said, there wasn't really a 'why', per se. It was an accident. And as for who, well, that's the other reason Momoka wants to fix it."
>Bloody human just couldn't leave well enough alone, but she'd better curb that attitude. Pronto.
>"See, she lives down here. Now surfacers. when they- we- wanna clear their heads, we generally go for a stroll, right? 'leastways a lotta folks do. But Momoka, she don't walk on the ground, she digs through it. As a matter of fact, it was her tunnel that that fairy broke into and went sauntering through like she owned the place. And in all the years she'd lived down here, Momoka'd never known anyone else that had built this far down. Until one night, a couple weeks ago, when she accidentally found this place. And since the repairs she made that night got messed up by that fairy, she offered to do them again."
>The woman's expression darkens as you implicate Momoka, though she doesn't look particularly surprised by this. For her part, the mole seems almost to shrink as you say this, if such a thing is even possible given her already minute stature.
>Feeling none too kindly disposed towards your client at the moment, you continue to lay out the situation for her. The dour but motionless expression on her face does not instill much confidence of her being understanding, but at least she doesn't cut you off. Momoka fiddles nervously with the edge of her sleeves again; you think she's liable to start fraying the edges of them if she keeps this up. An oppressive silence falls on the room after you finish. The owner's face remains steeled, almost impassive were it not for the dark undercurrent you can see beneath it. Momoka looks as though the the room has
already swallowed her. Eventually the owner turns her gaze towards the mole youkai; Momoka nearly flinches from it.
>"So you broke into my storeroom," she says matter-of-factly, though there is a chill to her words.
>"....yes," comes Momoka's reply, barely more than a whisper.
>"And you never thought someone might have a problem with this?" the owner continues.
>"W- well-"
>She doesn't pause long enough for a reply. "You never though to tell anyone that you'd just damaged their property? Or trespassed in their business? Or left a back door open to thieves and who knows who else?"
>Momoka fidgets, frowning deeply. "Well, I- I tried to put things back like they were before I did it."
>"Clearly you didn't do a good enough job," she replies coldly.
>Does the guild have a blacklist, as far as we know?
>There is a form of blacklist, yes, though in practice it doesn't tend to get used very often. Most of the names added to it are either for failing to provide adequate or agreed-upon compensation upon successfully job completion, or for intentionally withholding known risks in their job postings. In many cases, this blacklisting is cautionary, rather than binding; Seekers are still free to do business with whom they choose, but they are at least warned beforehand of a client's past behavior.
