native Fëanorian Amentans
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"No?"

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"It's not that nothing would be enough, we're more pragmatic than that, but 'generically well-heeled' I could probably pull just off family connections if I decided to settle the fuck down. And no one'd doubt that the kids really count."

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"I'm told I have a charming wink." He winks charmingly. "Nobody's fussed significantly at Shasali Aven's kids."

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"Well that family'd already squandered whatever credibility they had with the conservatively-inclined, hadn't they, what with the caste-hopping and the big fight to import Olvalan plumbers and the princess-of-the-reds shtick. And no one's marrying Shasali Aven's kids."

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"They're a bit young for it. Great great grandma nearly went with one of my cousins but if no blue would've had her she'd've had trouble producing blue kids."

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"And you can marry down, yeah."

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"Mm-hm."

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"Might hafta." Sip.

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"Haven't ruled it out but I wouldn't say I'm resigned."

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She looks at him consideringly. 

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Charming wink.

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"I'm behind on my resort bill, you could pay it."

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"What's the room number?"

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"112."

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He prods his pocket everything.

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"You're all going to burn through money real fast, you're not used to having it."

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"We're being careful, except for the occasional resort trip."

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"Someone'll get annoyed and sue you over something stupid and the judges'll go for them."

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"Not impossible."

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"There are rich purples. You can't buy blue."

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"We did have to pass a test."

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"Yep. Typed answers to questions and so did smalltime blues and some people tried to guess who was already blue, see if they could do it consistently. None of us flunked out and had to do something else instead."

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"Then maybe you'll do all right with some smalltime blues."

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"If I'd been born a smalltime blue and then suddenly came into eighteen blocks of Iltan I think this would be a different conversation."

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