"I guess we do have a lot of that."

"Yeah. But - I think ideally she would have a father and I would be married to him. Is I guess part of why I'm thinking about this. Although I guess I don't know how culturally compatible any of my options are. Might just end up with someone from my work crew."

"That makes sense."

"There're some all right people in my work crew. It wouldn't be so bad."

"Sure, it's just - 'it won't be so bad' is kind of a depressing thing to say about getting married."

"I guess so.

"Do your people have women promise to obey their husbands?"

"We used to, actually! Then we invented women's rights, and now we don't."

"Your women didn't have rights before?"

"Well, a long time ago nobody really had rights, and we're sort of gradually adding in more groups and constantly debating which sets of rights are real ones. But the thing where women can vote for leaders and open credit lines in their own names, we're pretty sure that was good."

"I guess that makes sense. We can't do any of that, but - that's because we're slaves, I guess. I think when we're free we'll give everybody rights."

"Well, good for you. I'm - not sure if anything I said was helpful but I hope it was."

"Little bit. Kind of weird, but - thank you."

She heads over to Korva and Hagan.

"Hey!"

"Hi. I, uh - I guess I am asking everybody how they think marriages should work. Since I have an idea of how they should, but I think it has a lot to do with slavery, so - I wanted to see what different free Liars thought."

"I'm Osirian, I'm not going to tell you much different than what Fazil did, but I'm happy to try."

"I dunno, I think people from the same culture often describe their ideas really differently, and it can help you understand them better. But I am a little more interested in what Korva thinks."

Korva is blushing.

"Uh, sure. Where I come from people have sex and sometimes kids without getting married, so getting married is, like - your relationship is a big enough deal that you want to tell your entire community and family that they should know that you're together and expect you to be together in the future, even though people aren't always still together in twenty years. It's - saying that you're planning to raise each other's kids, and build your lives so they work with each other, and be someone the other can rely on. We let people get divorced, so - it's really important to pick someone who you actually trust to stick with you, but it's a little less disastrous if they turn out to actually be a terrible person, because if living with them is unbearable you can still leave, you'll just - lose face and be out a lot of time and money and faith in humanity.

"If I marry Hagan it will be slightly different because Hagan's Osirian."

"How'll it be different?"

"Well, I'm not gonna do it if I think I'm at all likely to want to leave, because Osirians don't have divorce. There're probably other ways it'll be different but we haven't, like, extensively talked about them."

"Osirian marriage is - I don't think Cheliax expects a marriage between a man and a woman to be any different than a marriage between two men, it's all just people who want to say something about their relationship, but Osirians think men and women are different so Osirian marriages are different things for a man and for a woman. And Osirians frown on sex outside marriage a lot more than Cheliax does, and adultery's illegal."

"I guess without contraception that makes a lot of sense, avoiding sex unless you already have two parents. Is adultery illegal for both spouses? Fazil said only women promised to remain faithful."

"Adultery is illegal for men too but it's not defined as broadly. The laws - aren't really fair to women, women didn't make 'em."

"Well that seems very bad, why didn't people talk to women when they made them? I guess maybe they thought they wouldn't know anything? Fazil said your women were mostly not educated."

"I mean I'm pretty sure they just didn't wanna give women more rights? Because it'd be inconvenient for them."

"Well that's... horrible? I suppose the Alteri do it, but - I'd hope we could do better than the Alteri. Maybe it's harder for free people to be fair, or something."