"Throw in a few masks and a four string quartet and I would swear I was in Val Royeaux." Which only she, as the token Orlesian, is permitted to mock in such a fashion. Anyone else would be glowered at until they apologized.

"Good. If you did, I would have to strangle you instead, and then what am I to tell Benevenuta?" Poking at that connection, just to see how he reacts.