"Hi..." she says as she turns around to face Ahiru, since humans generally consider that kind of thing polite. (What if: Ahiru is lying, and this has been an elaborate gambit to gain trust. More far-fetched betrayals have happened on Earth. She does not, even now, completely dismiss this thought, only determines its irrelevance.)

"Stephanie and I are going to make a post about Department reforms," she explains. They had spent a long time planning it too. She hoped this was going to help people now that they'd finally gotten their act together. (With their luck, however, another drastic change was probably on the horizon.)

And then Ahiru asks about the necklace - which Kanaya takes between her first two fingers and tugs up, just enough that the entire chain is visible but not the pendant. The question is written all over her face: This???