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"It's simply because they have them that their own wives aren't as interesting. It's human nature to want what you cannot have," Lelinus told her with a shrug. It was a sad fact of life that nobles were forever scheming to gain more wealth and power or pleasure. He himself was attempting to gain more influence and power, though he believed it was for a good cause.

"I think that it was a political engagement. He certainly benefited from the marriage, though he has yet to have an heir. I would lay the fault with him rather than his wife, however. He's had decades to produce a child and he hasn't managed to yet. Most nobles have the opposite problem," he told her. He smiled slightly, "You look good in your armor as well. Just more intimidating."

He said it like a statement of fact. He wasn't trying to woo or flatter her. He was just telling her what he thought.