His 'power is power' statement caused one delicate eyebrow to arch. This was supposed to reassure her? "Well ... good to know my status as a second class citizen is still well established thank you Acton?"  She was equal parts bemused, offended, and genuinely confused as to what was actually happening in this conversation.<br/><br/>Her father again began to sputter, "Kailani you will remain civil before guests and treat him with the respect afforded to him by his station and status as your future husband! Honestly ... what has gotten into you girl?"  He was not as outraged as he could have been after all the wizard still seemed ready to look at the marriage contracts which he oh so helpfully pulled from one of his desk drawers and laid out on the polished surface before them.<br/><br/>Kali merely stared at her father for a moment wondering just when they had grown so very far apart.  Granted they had never had a precisely close relationship, open affection was not exactly fashionable.  But of course, like all changes it had been after he brother's death.  Evard had thrown himself wholeheartedly into his business ventures while Kali had slowly stopped caring about what others thought of her.  Respecting the station of others and demanding that same respect in return had gained her nothing in life, she found far more pleasure in breaking those social norms.  Like with Ezribeth.... a small shudder went through her one leg crossing over the other as she fought to get her thoughts back on track.<br/><br/>"Of course I'll sign it, I am not, despite popular opinion, a willful child ... or a freaking idiot" The last qualifier was added under her breath as she reached out to scoot the papers closer looking them over quickly.  Fairly standard really.  Her father was waving the bride price in favor of a business arrangement with Acton naming him his primary contact and executor.  There was also a fair bit discussing willing the D'allesio title to their first born son, a matter which caused her eyes to widen slightly.  My but they were getting ahead of themselves, not even married and her children were already being spoken for.  Lovely.