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Kit explained that there was no peerage in Spire…wherever that was. He grinned. he did a lot of that.

“You see, Spire has always been controlled by five houses, and it’s a general rule of thumb that your house is going to have at least one ally and at least one enemy – I’m a Goldenjay, and Val is a Page, so technically we shouldn’t be getting along.” He shrugged, as if to shrug away all social conventions, but Avin thought it was trying to convince himself as much as anyone else

“But like I said, broken pawns don’t get much attention, sooo no one actually seems to care too much what we’re up to.” He grinned a different sort  of grin. “All the better for us, isn’t it?”

Avin nodded, but thought, Until somebody does start to care.

Talking was exhausting. Avin wondered if he would ever be used to talking. Elsa did it with charm and gracefulness, whether she felt like entertaining or not. At dinners and various diplomacies he had attended, people had shied away from the peasant duke with stone-gray eyes and had focused on his pretty young wife.

Avin had wondered how many of the ambassadors they had entertained had once been suitors. He put the thought from him bitterly.

Maybe it wasn’t “all the better for us” to be free of social constructs. Only a moment ago he had told Kit there was no such thing as class, but now he wondered if he had been trying to convince himself as much as this boy in front of him.

@Calidris I can NOT think of anything else to say. Is a subject change in order? Or we could pause until after the dance and start utilizing the challenges suggested. Avin doesn’t do well just talking. He’s a doer, not a talker. 🙂