"My parents were not involved."

"Well then how did you know not to marry someone else?"

"I didn't! But we were friends so he could probably have had some inkling if there were any other plausible candidates."

"Do women not need their father's permission to marry, where you're from?"

"No one needs that, people can just marry when they decide they've found the person they want to marry and the time is right."

"Huh."

"That's so sweet."

"Was he already an advisor to the King, when you married?"

"He was. He had to be reembodied shortly after the King became King - when we settled the planet we live on now - and was an advisor from fairly soon after that."

"Does he have any other wives?"

"No, practically no one does. The King does have two. It's not because he's the King, though."

"What do you mean it's not because he's the King?"

"Hardly anyone wants more than one spouse and no one, even kings, is expected to. He has two because his first wife died and insisted on staying dead, and at the time he thought that would last indefinitely, and he wanted more children, so he found someone else who loved him and wanted children and married her too. Eventually his first wife was willing to come back and then there he was with two wives. They worked it out - the wives have since also married one another - but it's still a little scandalous."

"Women can marry each other, in your world?"

"They can, just like men can marry each other."

" - huh."

"Both became legal at the same time, actually. It used to be that only men and women could marry."

"Here too, I think, when we were ruled by foreigners."

"Well, I'm glad that's been at least halfway amended."

"I guess two women marrying wouldn't be silly if one was a wizard or something."

"What does one being a wizard accomplish?"

"She could support a household."

"I think I'm missing something. Ismat over there if I caught the right bits of the conversation makes plenty of money and supported her brother for a long time, right?"

"She dressed up as a man to do it, which is illegal. It wouldn't really work to say women can marry other women as long as at least one of them is doing some crimes to make the finances work."

"...okay, but she still has the job skills necessary, doesn't she?"

" - well, yes, but no one'd work for her once they knew she was a woman, until she was a married one and to a prince and then some of them had to sort of concede it was all right."

"...why wouldn't they work for her?"