Meja shakes his hand, still smiling. She has a firmer handshake than it seems like she'd have, but nothing unpleasant; from experience, she knows how to reign in her extra strength.

"Nice to meet you, Markus. It's a good system, given you don't have much to work with," she notes, though she raises a slight brow when he notes his nickname as Rat. But she's not one to talk about unusual nicknames. "Between that and my changing of the weather, the garden should be in good enough shape."