Talk:Lil' Miss Malachite/@comment-27144409-20181110210047/@comment-17344148-20181204081230

Okay, this one, I quote from the "World of Remnant: Mistral".

Qrow said, "... but places like Wind Path and Kuchinashi start to get a little farther out of sight. There's plenty of places to hide in Mistral... that's why you gotta know where to look."

Then, from Lil' Miss herself, she said that there were spies that were out to get her... and later confessed that she hired them for her own goals and needs.

My guess is that she was once on the run from her enemies, until she came across the dark and unsavoury side of Mistral. This gave her the idea of using her enemy's spies against them by hiring said spies. After which, she established her little tavern and all that, running a business which involved information seeking.

All in all, she was a foreigner on the run... and the chase ended in Mistral when she thought of hiring the pawns after her.