"I was going by your advice to not present myself as a commoner even though I am one. And in fact my priority is to stick with you, so probably that was the right thing to do."

"Commoners have much much worse lives than nobility for the most part."

"Rich ones?"

"Rich ones still have worse lives, I suspect, but it is much closer. Though I expect you would encounter many similar difficulties in being a rich commoner as from being a noble."

"I suppose. If -

- Lucette, how can the demons tell you've gotten married?"

"In order for empowered to get married they arrange to be haunted together during the same night."

"Oh."

"Oh?"

"Well - it seemed unlikely that demons care a lot about which kind of human they've got. So maybe they couldn't tell the difference, if you had a wedding with two women. But I don't have a demon."

"-it seems not impossible to me that it could work given that your emotions are visible as if you are an empowered, but I'm not sure.... regardless it would be culturally impossible to manage, possibly criminally so."

"Yeah, I guess. And probably all the cultures are just as sexist and in this one at least you've got your grandfather."

"And quite a lot of leverage due to my position in nobility, even if I must navigate around men to wield it."