I'm sixteen. Most girls my age are already married. Mum was fifteen when she married my dad.

[She gives a small shrug, glancing away from her locket. She doesn't make any kind of comment about his laughing at her hand movement though, so that's a plus.]

There's a lot of work that goes into bein' a princess an' a queen. I know I'm not ready for any of that, let alone marriage.