The Summer Knight gave the dragon an amused look. "I was thinking more independent parties that gave reasonable assistance to the other. They don't attack you, you hunt away from their territory. If something attacks either territory, you use a wand of sending I will provide to alert me, and I come and do something about it if it is the Winter Court. If not, I come and try to recruit it, or failing that, drive it off or kill it.<br/><br/>And you aren't subservient to anyone. You just do what you would normal be doing, and can summon the big, nasty Summer Knight if something bigger shows up."