"Ah. Technically I'm not a wizard." 

"You've got a wizard contract and, respectfully, every single person I've ever heard use the word 'technically' like that is a wizard." 

He's known some song-sorcerers to do it too but it's different. They say it like they're about to tell you a cool fact and it has not once ever in their lives occurred to them that anyone else might not be interested in every single cool fact they've ever heard. 

"...admittedly you sound slightly less like you're correcting me because I'm very stupid than the average war-wizard does, which I must say I appreciate," he adds, wryly. 

That gets a startled giggle. "Okay, yes, guilty as charged, certainly I am an academic. It's a different spell tradition, though. ... which I will not tell you about in detail unless you actually want to hear about it?" 

Hm.

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Arguments against: foreign, Evil, objectively less Splendour than most of the serious candidates he's been introduced to at parties which probably reduces sorcery chance, wizards aren't known to be very enthusiastic about retiring to raise children, his father will be furious. 

Arguments for: deliberately defected from the white witches of Irrisen to come fight Tar-Baphon instead, passed all the security checks they obviously ran on her about that backstory, not immediately gratingly annoying, his father will be furious, and also he kind of wants to follow her around looking at her like she's a painting. Which is probably not because he's enchanted, see again items 1 and 2. 

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"...I would actually love to hear about it over dinner sometime?"