"It really does depend on where you end up, ya know?  If you end up with pull inside the system, I wouldn't mind a few people getting fired who I'm not going to name on the record.  You wind up with a million gold, I'd take a thousand."

"But we're still not done with my proper job here.  Key question, what's your actual sorcerous rank?  Entrance paper says Duke, not sure I can get you out of stressful-power-testing where they try to get a Duke's power output out of you.  I can try to write in a note asking them not to try too hard, but there isn't actually a line of the form for that."

"It really does depend on where you end up, ya know?  If you end up with pull inside the system, I wouldn't mind a few people getting fired who I'm not going to name on the record.  You wind up with a billion gold, I'd take a million."

"But we're still not done with my proper job here.  Key question, what's your actual sorcerous rank?  Entrance paper says Duke, not sure I can get you out of stressful-power-testing where they try to get a Duke's power output out of you.  I can try to write in a note asking them not to try too hard, but there isn't actually a line of the form for that."

"It really does depend on where you end up, ya know?  If you end up with pull inside the system, I wouldn't mind a few people getting fired who I'm not going to name on the record.  You wind up with a billion gold, I'd take a million."

"But we're still not done with my proper job here.  Key question, what's your actual sorcerous rank?  Entrance paper says Duke, not sure I can get you out of stressful-power-testing where they try to get a Duke's power output out of you.  I can try to write in a note asking them not to try too hard because the paper is wrong, but there isn't actually a line of the form for that."