[ Kahlil is not a politician. Some of his skills run parallel, though. He's good at reading people, and he's good at knowing what people want to hear. He's learned how to bend, which took being broken to finally understand what that really meant. More than a few of his scars are permanent reminders of those lessons Dayyid taught him.

He cocks his head at Claude's answer, a silent is that so? acknowledgement of his tact without pushing beyond that. To his question he shakes his head again. ]

I haven't seen her often, but I also have zero standing in court. The purges weren't of anyone particularly importance either. The only other person in some position of power that I've briefly interacted with is a mage called Ambrose. He gathered us Summoned to explain what happened during the Nocwich ceremonies. His interpretation of who was responsible sounded more open to reason at the time, although [ a soft shrug ] I haven't heard anything from him since.

[ As with the Queen, he doubts he'd be able to get an audience with the man even if he had a good reason to. ]