Ella followed Rosalie, taking note of the opulence before the tunnel began and the darkness after it started. "Do you think the building does the things it does for a reason?" she asked as they walked, because this was the most random place to end up. "Everything it's done before this has been about us, to a certain extent, but this? It's different," she said, walking into a large, old kitchen, which had (thankfully) a stove that looked fairly familiar. The kitchen staff treated them with the deference afforded to above-level servants, and Ella had no trouble finding the herb closet, though some of the things there were unfamiliar.
She grew a tiny rosebud in the palm of her hand, and she set on the teapot and prepared the linen bag with the herb tea in it while she waited. "Have you met Jane?" she asked, staying away from the topic of Bellum while they were in a public place.