Jian finally chose to smile a little, taking a deep breath.<strong>"The most troubling idea would involve a recent lover, a great infatuation and little requests that would have built up to this kind of situation and possible memory loss. If you are rather certain that you have only had a long-term lover or have none that stands at your side, I don't mean to pry more out of you on that. I just want to make sure nobody is trying to twist a noble heart by tainted intentions. Someone using the magic I consider 'beautiful' in a way that I'd describe as 'profane' gets me worried, so I may have asked more than is necessarily polite."</strong><br/><br/>She tried to amend the situation a bit, offer an olive branch, a way out of that statement. Besides, if she hadn't had a recent new lover, she doubted it would be something about the Commander. Most likely seductress would not have laid in wait for too long, she reasoned. The longer such magic would be used, the more likely something might be noticed and go wrong. It was best to scout ahead, but even then she had a feeling that over-using the method would leave it open to being noticed and traced.<br/><br/>She cast a glance at Alana though, curious on her reaction.