Draiss grinned as Amaterasu flaunted herself, and noted many appreciative looks from males, often accompanied by infuriated looks from a nearby female. He hummed to himself, switching to telepathy to keep their conversation from being overheard.<em>Not found her, found someone that somehow ended up in a position of power despite not earning it.</em><br/><br/>He filled her in about the way the city elected its officials, and about the artificers grumbling about the popular choice not getting the office.<em>So, somehow, the previous, not very well liked artificer, managed to hold the position, in a high magic world that is full of innovative, for a mortal, ways of applying magic.</em><br/><br/>He wasn't heading directly to the artificers' office, instead heading to the one that had been passed up, intent on using her to get in to check if that artificer had disappeared for a while without warning or telling anyone where he was going.