He nodded, not going into the specifics of how he had 'met' Sapphire. "Yes, though Sapphire is a blue dragoness, she was adopted at a young age by Aurelia and is more gold than blue in mentality. Due to how we met, we also share a majority of my memories, along with her own, so when I have an issue describing things, I can rely on her to translate my babble into something coherent. But most women do that anyway when a man is talking, or so I have heard."<br/><br/>From there, he went on, describing the Court, and how it functioned, or didn't, the never ending politics and back stabbing, and most of all the spying, placing people in the homes of someone that was 'of interest' if at all possible. Since the 'spies' answered to their master, they would act for the head of the house, but only until their master, or mistress, ordered otherwise. He had heard from Elwyrr in a couple extreme cases, this even involved the house head's death, most spies were carefully dealt with. "Can't kill them, as they will just get replaced, and you might miss them, but not too closely controlled or they might get replaced anyway. But too loosely, and they get the option to backstab you. So it is a careful balancing act, not all that different from most politics, but with more blood, or so I have been given to understand."<br/><br/>Now came the fun part, trying to describe how, and most importantly WHY, he controlled the spies as he did without offending either of the women, getting gutted, or losing the engagement, as that would be as lethal (if he was lucky) as getting gutted.