"A guard or an assistant. If we were to get -- too affectionate in public," she can't help the tiny smile that rises, "then the illusion would be compromised. As different people would fill in different details, some might see me kissing a senator or a general, perhaps. Which would be problematic, to say the least. But if we merely discuss the city and other things, then I suspect the conversation would be forgotten long before whoever was listening even realized they'd heard it."