Kathy is well liked by the dragonlord cause she will play with him -- he allows her freedom of the palace - which is run by a computer program of sorts -- this computer is called ""the Oracle"". The oracle decides jobs and events throughout the land of the Dragonlord. The only way to change the programming is by the Dragonlord himself. While Kathy is liked by the Dragonlord -Ashka is not -- and she is left improsoned.