"Are you going to plan your own wedding like your sisters? For the best alliance possible." If he showed any surprise, she'd smile at him and reply with an arched eyebrow that asked if he really thought she was stupid enough not to realize what this whole thing was, at least in part. She lifted a hand, cradling it against his chest as she turned her head to look at him, the looped braids of her hair falling in a way that made her seem slightly otherworldly.<br/><br/>"I understand that you have to marry for alliance, we all do unless we're lucky...but you have more freedom..and time if truth be told. You don't have to marry immediately unless your father was dying. Is there not anything you'd do for yourself before tying yourself to a lonely throne. Alliances  may protect a kingdom, but they can also keep a cold bed."