"I plan to go back there. My last posting was at the Imperial Security HQ in the capital." And it had been hard to leave when he had been reassigned here, but necessary. If he was to make it to his end goal, he had to continue moving up the ladder.

"You may be the first to claim imperial interest bring comfort," he says dryly. She's not the only one who can tease though his preferred route is sarcasm.