"Do you want to listen to the Council bitching about it? I don't." She would rather deal with them as little as possible if it were up to her, because they are still, in fact, enemy number one in her book. Not even in a "would be fun to harass" way, which is how you know you've truly made her shitlist.

Is it somewhat demeaning to be pet like this? Eh, probably, but it's attention and quite frankly it feels good. She also has no business being this fluffy, but it doesn't matter when she's pushing her back into it with what is a momentary bit of a purr. Twenty years or whatever and she still isn't against the idea and there's still only a few select people she'll let see any of that kind of vulnerability.

His usual is always... still something compared to most. Especially when she's faintly curious about how much he's going to make the healers hate him this time around. "So what's the bets on how many are going to get hurt this time?" Best believe she means the combat classes, it's something her Court is technically known for, but it's not like she ever really cared much for it herself.

"Weirder things have happened, I found one of my own and I still don't know how I managed that even now." That poor novice is going to really find out if this was a good or bad idea. "I suppose some people might have lost a bet on how long it would take me~"