Some kind of payment, perhaps... [Her thoughts turn hazy for a moment, the link between their minds foggy and unfocused as she drifts through ideas and hypotheses. It's barely more than a second or two, a thoughtful pause and nothing more, but somehow feels weightier.]

I'll have to speak with Loren about it. I try very hard to avoid doing what the old Queens in Draega did. [A flash of disgust echoes between them, and it's linked strongly to the amphitheater as well as what was once empty ground in the center of the Bazaar. If River has been to that part of town, she'll know there's a pavilion there now, and people use it as a gathering place. Children play there. A small change for the better.] Everyone here works because we must to survive, asking someone to work more without payment... they did that. But this is good information to have. Jailing the Blood may prove difficult, but... Well, we are all rigid in our thinking at times. This is a nice alternative to executions and exile.