"Actually," Tehr said with a smile, "House Saari is the very next house on my list to visit.  It's why I can't stay all night.  I need to send a message off to them tonight and hopefully attain an audience with one of their members.  Buisness other than this official alliance, they are in negotiations with my mother over a buisness venture."<br/><br/>While all of that was true, he found he didn't want to let Emily d'Ravos think that he was going to try to bed any attractive members of that house as well.  As forwards thinking as her house or race might be, discretion would serve well when it came to lovers.  "In fact," he said as the thought occured to him, "If it's not too much of an imposition, maybe I could ask you to send off a letter to them as well?  Let them know my intentions are honorable?"<br/><br/>He was pushing his luck a little, there was no real reason for Emily to do this, but any foot in the door wouldn't hurt.  Plus if the rumors were true, d'Saari were not overly fond of men.  So any advantage he could take to put them at ease, he'd use.  He decided to sweeten the pot, "As to a charm for cleaning, I can look into it, but make no promises at the moment.  I'm afraid that manufacture isn't my strength you understand."<br/><br/>He paused and did some quick math in his head, "Plus, I currently don't have access to a workshop where I could construct a device nor, am I ashamed to admit, the free funds or time at this precise moment."  He figured that with some research he could figure out how to make such an item.  A one time use would be easy and cheap enough if he got a little more practice with such manufacturing techniques.  But a re-usable one would easily cost him more gold than he had on hand.  And he certainly wasn't going to write his mother asking for a forward of gold just to create a magical item to impress a lover, regardless of the political implications.