It was earlier in the year for myself. I have been here a little over a year now. It was a few months after that, before I felt settled enough to consider joining the Council here. Although I know how difficult it is to enact change, I thought my own experience with political matters in my own world before this one might be helpful.

[Explained with a pleasant smile, but indeed, quite formal and distantly polite.]

You seem to have taken to the magic of this realm quite well. May I ask a little of what your life was like before coming here? If you would rather not say, of course I understand. We have all left some things behind, I think.