[the fact that the potential threat is willing to back off reassures Keigetsu, but the second she's reassured, she also realizes how much she's just embarrassed herself. she wishes that she could throw this woman in a lake, or erase the last twenty seconds from history. the mood is not great.

there's nothing to do but live in hell now, so she bares her teeth in a non-smile and stiffly tries to push through it -- Smokey's still blocking her exit unless she does something truly socially terrible, like escape over the table.

this is... the worst.]

...right.

And what are you trying to figure out, then?