"Looks can be deceiving." She smiled in return. However weak he might look, there was a chance that there was something more to him. She had experienced that herself, underestimated all of her life because she was a woman. "You have studied sorcery?" That caught her attention. It was perhaps the first time she heard someone admit it openly without fear. "Magic, you mean?"

It was convenient and worked out to her benefit. These cities were courting her, offering free services to help her settle and she would be mad to turn them down. Though it was unsettling, knowing the history of what happened. "I hope your friends have recovered. It's strange though, they hate each other that much that they would have riots? What will they do to us?"