"I think eating the food here would be bad for me."

"Because of one of the ways our worlds work differently?"

"Yes."

He looks very frustrated at this answer but doesn't pester her further.

Oh good.

It's a few days after that that a servant bringing sheets walks in at an inconvenient time. They get a look at whatever she's doing and, alarmed, turn to flee.

What she's doing is harmonically mapping her room. It's not a plausibly deniable number of fairylights. They are still gone an instant later.

She checks her gates. No settles yet.

No one asks her about them.

She does get a note a day later.

I have good news for you!

"Oh?"

I asked around after the person you were entangled with. A person matching that description negotiated to spend the winter at a court not very far from here, maybe fifty miles south. Well-run. She's unlikely for the time being to be drawing any bad luck down on your head.

"Oh, that's good then."

Yes. I was relieved. 

Would you like me to arrange to bring her here?

"I did not enjoy her company."

I gathered that. I don't expect you to interact with her at all. But it's often safer to have liabilities close to hand.

"Close to hand and doing... what?"

I don't know what she'd be good at.

"Neither do I."

I can't tell if you are worried for her or worried about us having more leverage here. If it's the second, I'll leave her, but if it's the first I'd hate to have a dangerous situation stay that way because I didn't know the right thing to say to reassure you.

"Both."

Nod.

To my knowledge no one of this court is unhappy or feels unsafe, even the useless ones. But she's probably fine where she is, and I'll leave her there. If you decide something else during the night you can let me know then; people don't travel at night much.

"What makes someone count as 'of this court'?"

We agreed to take them in under the usual set of conditions for joining a court - that they disclose other attachments and are not following orders from elsewhere and will obey the rules while they're here and will manage debts and keep them low.

"Are those the conditions under which you'd be admitting her?"

I'd want to meet her before committing to it but that'd be the idea, yes.

"What if you met her and it didn't seem wise?"