[Kel glances over as she considers this soft-spoken man she's come to respect very much. She doesn't often think of Gregor as an emperor, certainly not as much as she recalls that Lucy is a Queen... But forgetting he's royalty at least doesn't last long. She thinks back to the start of Roald and Shinko's betrothal, and how they had come to see each other as partners. Certainly Roald had much to live up to after his famous parents.

That brings up another memory, one of a meeting where the king and queen had glanced at another and decided to change a law because she'd told them it was bad.

Kel's silence lasts almost long enough to be awkward before she says very slowly]

I think if your marriage is something you can arrange yourself, you should, before anyone forces the issue. That nearly happened with our king, and I suspect that the conservatives would have been much happier for it. [Or possibly dead]

...And you ought to look for someone who's just as willing to put up a fight as you.