“Carrot and stick,” Petrana offers, in return: “alliances that will be of value to her, and by necessity make her known to others more than ourselves. She cannot fail to be aware that her ability to move and work in the south is not what it was; entrench her in more networks than only our own and the consequences of her actions will ripple further than she can easily, again, drop them and begin again.”

It isn't easy to make that stick in a world where a person might travel two days' ride, change their name, and become anew.

It isn't impossible, either. It's easier when dealing with mages— unleashed in a way they were not, ten years ago, but restricted by the knowledge of their nature all the same.