"He's on the guild council and he's really nice and funny and sweet." And smart, and only thirteen years older than her. "Besides, I haven't really decided what school of magic I want to study, and he's a red mage, so he knows a bit of everything." She took another sip of tea. "You can ask Cormac's friend, if you want, but I have ideas of how I can handle it, when I start doing that sort of thing. And who knows? Maybe some of the older mages have other ideas, too."