"I'm not very affiliated with any faction inside the Facility, but Duchess Carnidine under Grand Muhulla to the extent it's anyone. They do me favors, and I them."
"Though, I think most people in this universe would have interpreted your question in a way where the answer is that I'm in the Facility and therefore chattel to a bureaucracy that answers to the Prince whose death you causally participated in somehow--I have updated against your having directly murdered him on a whim, based on the rest of this conversation--under the Dread Emperor."