She still looks quite annoyed. "These fools shouldn't be passing themselves off as masters, then. Masters! I was better than half of them, before I met you!" She's clearly exaggerating and lying to herself; she's come a long way, since he met her, and, while she put most mortal smiths to shame, back then, now, she's in a class all by herself. "I couldn't tell you. I didn't deal with the city's politics. Down on the ground level, you made do with what you could, and were generally ignored by anyone up here."