Alice
"No she won't but-" Alice said as she pushed away the grabby hands that were feeling her up. "That's quite enough, we should get you up to speed on the various factions at play here and more importantly, you'll gonna have to make choices..."
The tall blonde suddenly took a step forward to create some distance between them and then turned around to face her before she continued speaking. "Most importantly who you're gonna be friendly with and who'll you'll not be, choices you make now will have consequences for a long time. That's why it's important you think about what you really want, before you try to suck up to too many people, unless you wanna end up with no one trusting you."
SakuraSakura grinned at Alice. She was being underestimated by her senior. Of course, she knew this already. Even in a liberal monarchy such as this one, she knew that in order to climb to the top, she needed two things: connections, and the ability to produce results. Of the latter, she was confident in her ability to do so. Of the former, she felt that Valerie herself was insufficient, as well as the general feeling that she was simply around as eyecandy.
She didn't like that, and wanted to find someone whom she could both get along with and be taken seriously by.
"You are the first of the nobility I've made contact with beyond Valerie herself." Sakura replied. She nervously ran her fingers through one of her curls and put on a confident face which would fool a stage magician. "I want to be taken seriously, and I want to become a powerful enough mage to reunite with my sister. That's all."