"They're free. All labor by non-sorcerers is free from the Facility's perspective, by comparison to sorcerer-related revenue, and they only charge for it if the charges help create drama. In this case it's to their advantage that you learn."
"On Counts: It's hard to say what Count you should blackmail or make an offer without knowing a lot more about what you think you can offer them, what your plans are, what sort of personnel you expect to need, and all that. Matchmaking that sort of thing isn't fundamentally lower-information than dating. I don't even know at this point if you're a pure sub, or a switch, or even a dominant who slipped in here sideways like myself."