<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/e9U6Dah.jpg)</div><br/>Lilian tapped her lip again thoughtfully, one delicate feminine finger bouncing along soft plump lips as she considered.  Then she took a deep breath and let it out in a sigh, an act that caused her barely covered bosom to rise and fall in a most pleasing manner Lise couldn't help but note.<strong> "It's not that I want to exert the influence of your position, it's that I want your position." </strong>She waved a hand dismissively,<strong>"Well, not me myself.  I personally would find your job exceedingly boring, no offense.  Plus I do have my own house of ill repute to run and my temple to attend.  No I don't mean to say that I'd want the job you have per say.  But a loyal Ah'mite, guiding policy for the town watch?  Now that could be very useful to me.  Militia members that I know and trust patrolling this district, ones who know when to look the other way, who know when to let a powerful noble stay hidden beneath a cloak instead of running him into the jail house for pissing in an alley?"</strong><br/><br/>She sighed deeply again<strong>, "oh and to have the ear and the bed of the duchess herself?  Mmmmm yes, I've only had the opportunity to sport with her once, and I fear she and I didn't get off on the best of feet.  But to advise her on policy, to suggest reforms and changes to law that would allow the people of Legalia to more openly accept the glorious ways of Ah'mie?   Yes, that is what I would want the most. "</strong><br/><br/>She paused and said,<strong> "While I think this is not a shocking revelation, a minor secret perhaps, but probably not one that would surprise anyone who heard it.  I think you carry secrets much deeper.  I've been honest with you, while you've been evasive.  You wish to see a curse lifted, I understand that.  So tell me who laid it upon you, a jilted lover, someone you spurned, your a family member?  This conversation can go nut much further if you keep your cards so close to your chest." </strong>She smiled softly and batted her eyes, a gesture that was meant to feign she was harmless and innocent, but once again Lise was struck by the deep wisdom and experience in those eyes.  The woman may look like a girl barely out of her teens, but those eyes said something completely different to her, how she could not say.