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┆☼┆ ❛ I mean… Something like that! It’s more like what everybody’d going to be saying at the party… With all my dad’s old duties suddenly being mine, it’s like it’s always old nobles and things like that. I never know what to say when I’m the youngest person in the room like that. I don’t even look mature at all yet.❜
She fidgeted with the gold trimming of her dress anxiously. Failinis couldn’t really help her here as much as she wished she could, and talking to Regulus about any of this would just be painful.
She was so lucky she ran into Cailean again!
❛ And now the topic keeps coming up again and again. I mean, I need their support, but no one wants to support a dying breed, and… I just… Don’t know what to tell everybody who tells me that if there aren’t any heirs lined up the clan is as good as dead. But I’d be lying if I said I’d be ready to just… make an heir tomorrow or something. That just makes it more obvious that I’m still a kid, though. I feel like either way no one’s going to take me seriously unless I tell them I have a plan for all that, even if I don’t. What do you think? Is there a good way to put it, even if it’s a lie?❜
Nobles, no matter the century, they never changed. So content with their riches, stations, titles and bloodlines that anything outside of their domains was unimportant. Unless it benefited them in some matter.
He still remember occasions where that came and bit them hard.
Conner-despite her line-acted very differently than the ones he had met. And for that, he did feel some sense of pity for the poor girl.
Snatching his neck slightly he cleared his throat, “My advice? Forget about the ‘heir’ part, brush it off as best as you can. It is none of their business when or if you decide on having children. Should they try and push the subject, you’ll have to try and divert the conversation away from it.”
Cailean sat up and rolled his shoulders as he continued to speak “Parties are like games to them, this would be an appropriate time to show them that you can play it just as well as them.”
“Example, you called your line a ‘dying breed’? Remind them that its not gone yet and there’s more history in your veins than they could hope for. Nothing gets a noble’s attention than someone mentioning something they don’t have.”
Was he really giving advice on this subject? Yes, yes he was and it was still strange to him.