"I knew it was one you'd been to, and I'd heard about the politics here. I figured it'd be an easy place to start, and, if things went sour, I could just burn my way through enough of them to escape without too much difficulty," she says, baring her teeth in a grin. "And you're always too busy to talk, and mom never listens to anything I say. She even threatened to dimensionally<em>lock</em>me to her citadel for a month, if I wouldn't do what she wanted! Besides, I know you would've told her, if I told you where I was going."