"The court's rules."  She explained, those were the ones she intended to avoid, but it did not sound like the dragons were much different, it seemed as if they also had fairly arbitrary guidelines. Perhaps it was because they also wanted to limit power, it seemed sensible that two dragons with two different kinds of power coming together could create children that were powerful.<br/><br/>She stopped when he grabbed her wrist, the tension between them was heavy and it was only going to continue to build, so while a part of her knew it was best to go back to the castle...She was tempted by his offer though and it seemed that nature also agreed with his temptation, the downpour began to let up slightly as he suggested they go back to the place they had been training.  "I know somewhere better." She gently pulled her wrist free, in case someone did see them.  "Follow me."<br/><br/>Instead of heading straight back to the place they trained, she led him to a path on the left.  They walked silence for a few miles as the rain began to slow until it was little more than heavy mist in the air.  Nestled in the woods a little bit away from the castle was a small cottage, one that the mistresses of past dukes had lived in.  Bennington had given it to her, when she claimed that his castle felt suffocating at times.  It had enough to keep her happy if she needed time away from the court.  She led him inside and immediately began to put on a fire.  As if on cue, lightning crackled again outside, and the rain started up again.  The patter of it hit the rough in an uneven, but comforting, rhythm.<br/><br/>"It's more or less my other space here, Bennington thought it would help me adjust if I had a space that was...mine."