Have you both considered how this might look? I know you. I know you would not stand for any attempt of coercion or make attempts to curry favor with the Templars. Others do not know you near as well. [ Those that did not wish anything to do with the templars might see this as a betrayal-

But Pel is no Circle Mage and this Council is something new even while there are shades of the Circle that surround it. As an apostate she never had to live with a templar's sword hanging over her head; of course she'd see him as a man before anything else- especially if she found him charming.

How it was she found him charming, she couldn't guess. ] I am going to have to speak with him.