"Apparently. No royalty yet except the one who married it, either."

"Do parents' occupations match?"

"Yes. Correcting for context."

"Huh. - would it be unusual in Marlatia to marry the child of a teacher and a guard, even correcting for - for Amenta that seems unusual -"

"Iobel hasn't mentioned it being a serious problem. She has a great-aunt who's some kinda noble..."

"And they seem awfully flexibly minded about things. I might well not be correcting strongly enough for Amenta."

"What would the scale of irregularity look like on Amenta?"

"I've never heard of a place with royalty where the royalty married non-blue. Concubines or something sure. In Anitam about five percent of blues intermarry and that's virtually all green and yellow - and it's probably lower among people with more power, I wouldn't have intermarried even if the love of my life were green or yellow and available."

"Why not?"

"I needed my political capital, we were staring down a catastrophe. Love matches are nice, but so is having the leverage."

"Well, fortunately neither caste nor whatever the fuck was going on with Maitimo and Findekáno plagued you."

"I'd ask him about that if it were easier to do, it's somewhat confusing. It's probably the homosexuality taboo, the homosexuality taboo sounds ridiculous."

"They'd been dating before, though."

"I really would need to meet one of them to guess, as described it's just -  not a mistake I can really imagine making, and so hard to reason about."

Nod.

"Kan'll give him a hard time about it."

"I'm glad you two are happily contemplating creme puffs together."

"If we moved to Revelation we could have five, it's so tempting."

"You can always do that later," Cam points out, "even if you're past twenty it's not like you'd be the ones getting pregnant."

" - I guess with demons, yes. I don't think expecting a baby when you're older than twenty is the same."

"Up to you."

"We will keep it in mind as an option. I don't spring very badly, honestly, I could ignore it if I had to."

"There's a lot of range there?"

"Tons. There's 'gosh, it'd be lovely to have kids, maybe when I get a chance to hold one I'll find myself tearing up for no good reason, well it'll be affordable someday', and then there's ....there are people in Voa who have a baby their first spring and mean to hold off their second spring because they still have a little toddler tearing around, it should be close enough, but it isn't, and before the spring's out they're expecting again, and then they have one their third spring too and get sterilized and are miserable forever."

"Yeesh."