[Upon realizing the fine line between "mercenary" and "freelancer", Jade starts to open her mouth. Then closes it. It happens a few times before she concedes her response.]

Well, yeah... you've got a point there. Getting actually hired for work was more of a recent development for me, so...

[Having spent most of her life in a country that hated her kind, and being a fugitive on top of that, there weren't that many "legitimate" methods of even scraping by for her.]

And I've gotten... spiels. But that's the kinda gist I'd gotten. Time will tell if I ever actually understand half of the shit that's going on here.

[She's a fast learner as an Emissary, but this is something else entirely.]