Draiss shook his head, before sipping from the goblet from earlier. He didn't even consider dallying with the woman, gorgeous though she was. "I am afraid that I can not. My own have become a bit restless, with adding a new one, and finding several more in a bandit's lair. They thought that they could set up near the lands that accept me as a protector, among other things. They perhaps overestimate their ability to help ease my passions, but it is a harmless conceit, and amusing. No, I was merely hoping to get to get the scroll, and deliver this one. Though if you wouldn't mind finally accepting my offer to spar with a number of your mages, I would be quite happy to play."<br/><br/>He had one last goal, the emerald dragoness, to get, but he knew getting her would be far harder than anything else. A massive bet, along with several favors due, would probably get the Sultan to toy with the idea, but it wouldn't be easy.