Sparkshower lifted her head a bit as the Major continued. "Mares, by contrast, are said to have only 'shame' instead, a property which is given to them at birth and may never be increased but only reduced, either by the machinations of lechers or by their own supposedly sinful impulses. And it is a property which must be defended at all costs by those colts who do not wish to lose 'honor,' whether they are linked to the mare by blood or merely by love."