Zelda laughed, equally hollow.  What was unfair, she thought, was that - with two exceptions - all of her paired-off siblings had fallen so in love with someone who mattered so deeply to them, but that these marriages were utterly proper. No one bent the rules, except Ari, who had papered over the rules with the offering of a baby.

She tilted her head back up to look at him. "Could always just announce a courtship and - see," she said, "What would they do, say I'd gone mad?" 

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