- Do you think it will be your choice when the king announces your engagement?

“Anyway, I already know about it and will be able to object, and not just accept it as a given the next day from a person who did not even ask my opinion.

Involuntarily, Sfiirath's eyebrows rose in surprise.

-Do you think he will ask your opinion? Will you dishonor your family in front of all honest people, will you refuse him if you don’t like him in front of the whole royal court, including a good half of your father’s friends?

She snorted and put her hands on his shoulders anyway. She doesn’t get...