She kisses him back, taking her seat again once he lets her go, and pulling out a brush, to settle her fur. "That far from the capitol, corruption is going to be an unfortunate fact, I'm afraid. We've tried to choose good men, who shouldn't be prone to it, but all it takes is one man, and the system can come apart. Still, coupled with the mage guild offering teleportation services, if not quite as efficiently as with the circle, we can drop in for surprise inspections more often than once a year, with a several-month warning, as we might have, in the past."<br/><br/>"Commissioning...? Oh, Draiss, did you go and frighten that poor boy? I thought we'd agreed we weren't going to meddle too much in her love life. Not to mention, she's certainly old enough to watch out for herself."