He chuckles.<br/><br/><strong>"I wouldn't use that one. Nobody really agrees on how many books are in the darn thing. The <em>Mahabharata</em>, on the other hand, is a closer fit.  Like Game of Thrones, only in Hindi and with more elephants."</strong><br/><br/>While you eat, he starts sketching a map of the neighborhood on a handy bit of scrap paper.<br/><br/><strong>"Killjoys are our local thugs. They shouldn't be more than a nuisance, and that's a lot of what worries me. Ingress, and by extension the House of Arch, has almost no direct power around but quite a bit of influence.  That tea-house is...ahhh...also a rather discrete escort service for people of a certain preference. So Ingress pays a friendly understanding tax, but not to the Killjoys."</strong>He scribbles a bit more.<strong>"She probably hasn't told you who she does pay up to, and my guess is that she's trying to avoid letting you get too deep into the mud. Also, she prefers low key involvement. And before you ask, the kittens are all volunteers, not all of them do it, and they're well compensated for their trouble. That's a metric fuck-tonne better than they'd get in anyone else's hands."</strong><br/><br/>He pauses, gives you a meaningful look.<br/><br/><strong>"The sisters do <em>not</em> agree on this part, by the way. Pretty sure Door wants Ingress to either halt the racket or make it official House business for the security. Only problem is, the House of Arch is lacking in power and influence at the moment."</strong>Another scribble.<strong>"Then there's the Benevolent Neighborhood Protection Society. That's the Dragon's people. And when I say 'her' people I do not mean to imply that she's got anything to do with it except that she lives in the area they control. Very ethnic, very clannish, not to be fucked with. They're part of the reason the Killjoys shouldn't be a big problem."</strong>Another scribble.<strong>"The Rats you've met, kind of."</strong><br/><br/>He frowns, regarding his map.<br/><br/><strong>"The Killjoys shattered another couple of gangs when they expanded this way. Any survivors who didn't integrate probably got themselves lost. For the most part, if you beat the snot out of them, they catch a clue. Now? Who knows. Gangers are petty little shitheads at the best of times. They might leave you alone. More likely that they'll come gunning for you. Just so you know."</strong>