Most of the talk is, unsurprisingly, about politics or sex, although they tend to use various euphemisms for the latter topic. It's a good twenty minutes before the Sultan finally manages to reach him, longer if he makes any attempt to avoid him. He doesn't note Cerul's mother in the crowd of women, but that's hardly surprising; the rumor is that he has over several hundred women in the harem, altogether, and there's roughly fifty or sixty of them, here. He does note, however, several of the higher ranking nobles going off with harem girls to private rooms; it seems his harem isn't exclusively for the sultan, but some of his favored guests, as well.<br/><br/>Eventually, however, he and the sultan meet, unavoidably. "Ahh, at last we meet, mighty archmage. I hear you made quite an entrance to my fair city. Are you enjoying it, so far?"