"Or the King's wife!"

"I will ensure Ahya also knows not to sing that one in the palace. Not that it was likely before."

"She is lucky to have you looking out for her."

"And vice-versa."

"Of course."

"I complain about her but she's amazing, really. I love her more than anything else in the world. I don't say that enough."

"It comes through all the same."

"Oh. Good. I'm glad. She's the best. And I'm really happy for her, regardless of what worrisome shenanigans led to it."

"They make each other very happy, don't they."

"It seems like it. I've seen less of how happy it makes him, though."

"Hopefully he at least tells her."

"Presumably, but that hasn't specifically made it into any of the songs yet."

"I'm tempted to meddle but I bet it'd backfire."

"Ooh, how?"

"Tyelcormo doesn't like authority much. I get a pass but I think it's a conditional pass."

"And it would be an authoritative sort of meddling?"

"It'd be the kind that ran the risk of being taken that way? He's very sensitive to it, from me. I'm a very manipulative person, you know."

"If you suggested things and I evaluated them on their own merits and attempted to execute them or not would that have the same problems?"

"Might not."

"Why don't you suggest things, then, and I'll take the risk into account in evaluating them."

"I wonder if talking to him about what he wants and which of those things he has communicated would be a good idea."

"Maybe. I don't think it would be very manipulative to suggest to Ahya specific kinds of communication to have, though, she's very much interested in 'preventing disaster via talking about our relationship like adults.'"

"Oh good."

"She's not really an irresponsible person. I think she'd be perfectly respectable in--well, in a society she felt like she could wholeheartedly respect."

"I can understand that."