ending on a mediumly high note! and er, I wasn't going to add this one because it would create an un-round number, but oh well.

Here's the thing: people don't want her to be with him. Not their friends or parents, but the rest of the court. It's somewhat a class amongst the nobility thing: Masbolle is an old, old house (even though Dom is not the heir but the youngest son of three) and Mindelan is new and used to be merchants besides. Even though her family is in favor, her brothers serve the Crown well, and her sisters have all made good marriages in Tortall and the Islands besides, the stigma is just enough to make Kel uncomfortable.

There's many who don't think it's her place to wed at all. The Lioness did it, but she married the former King of Thieves, who also happened to be a newly minted baron and worked in the shadier side of the government. The King's favor stretched far enough for George to be accepted, but if Alanna had wed a Naxen or a Goldenlake people would have been much more upset. Especially if she had married Jonathan and become their queen.

Dom doesn't care what others think: he isn't a knight but in the Own, he isn't an heir, and all of their parents and friends approve (though Raoul and her brothers and Neal and Owen and the rest of her yearmates and too many people to count will be out for his blood if she gets hurt) and so Kel thinks that maybe she can stop worrying. Maybe things will work out.