[It gets a snort.] Memorising a day isn't that special. I just don't get why he made a big deal about saying he'd remember... [Maybe that was just a thing people from peaceful places worried about. To her it was just another day, maybe with a sweet treat if one was lucky. But a place that didn't have famine probably made more of a show of it.

She follows when he starts again. Giving a small burst of speed to keep up.] Yeah... They compare it so much to marriage but I don't think it's anything like that. [She'd never been married but looking at the people she'd seen who were bonded, they didn't act married or anything. Then there was things like Lunasa.

...No wonder people got nervous about it.]