[bullet dodged tbh. jin guangyao will never forget this near-miss with an unforgivable social faux-pas, but he will outclass anyone in his efforts to pretend that it never happened.]

I have no prior commitments, [he assures viktor with a smile, which is the truth, because he doesn't have a regular job that keeps him busy during the day yet beyond trading modest talismans in exchange for other goods and services.] I would be delighted to meet this week.

[as for the rest, he pauses to consider, then offers,]

I have not used talismans or arrays, as such. But I have used musical cultivation to quell the spiritual unrest in a friend's mind, which seems to reduce the intensity of his blood power manifestations. [there's a bit more to it than that, he knows, but divulging more detail risks identifying mike, and jin guangyao would prefer to keep his friends' confidences, where possible. he smiles a touch apologetically.] It can be a difficult subject to explain to those with no familiarity with cultivation. Perhaps I could demonstrate the technique when we meet with Palamedes-xiansheng.