"Originally, we were going to let out figure it out for yourselves," Calvin surprisingly spoke up, "but it seems you are both willfully ignorant."
"So we decided to interfere," Deepa Ram was with her fiancé Borka Polumenta. 
"Get in, and don't come out until you're both thoroughly ruined," Blair smiled at Alaric and shoved him in while Aayina's sisters did the same to her. 
And then the door closed and audibly locked.
He'd instinctively reached out to help steady Aayina as she staggered under her sisters' manhandling. Blair wasn't tall, or strong enough, to upset his balance; he'd stepped in to keep Aayina from falling. "Do you have the first clue what they're talking about?" he asked, barely able to see her even an arm's distance away with the lone candle on the table further in. 
"How could I possibly?" she demanded right back, stepping away smartly. "I don't even know what this room is."
The door was definitely locked, he tried just to be sure escape wasn't possible. "Look around, see if there's more than the table the candlestick is on."
"Brilliant plan." Without an audience to temper it, her tone turned scathing. "Should I tell you to check the door or is it safe to assume you have the intellect to deduce that?"
"The door is locked Aayina, so unless you have a better plan, let's explore," he dryly confirmed. 
It was difficult to see her in the limited pool of light the lone candlestick spilled in a room with no windows or reflections. "It's a room of contemplation," Aayina declared before Alaric could put the clues together. 
A room of contemplation was a historical artifact in its own right, the practice of acetic self isolation for deep thought had fallen out of favour before Queen Akiyama's grandfather started his bloody reign. Alaric had wrongly believed the noble Estates in the Capital were all too modernized to have such features, and yet here he was; undeniably incarcerated in one. Although it wasn't a prison cell, it did lack extraneous distractions, supposedly to allow one the chance to focus on the problem one had to resolve. But they'd been pushed in together, locked in by both sets of siblings and now they had to determine the reasoning.
"Both your brothers and sister implied that they expected you to be oblivious." He could barely see her expression but the tone made him bite back a smile.
"Blair is incapable of being respectful to me, but this is a first for both Derbie and Calvin," he had no problem admitting. "And let's not forget that your three little Ladies Ram were participating just as vociferously." 
"Yes, but all your siblings had their lovers with them, only Deepa has a fiancé," Aayina seemed to believe that had any impact at all.
"Unless you think they showed us in here to help settle your sisters' romantic prospects, that is not the point," he pulled the lone chair out for her to sit on, eyes slowly adjusting to the dim light. 
With a huff, and he suspected a roll of her eyes that he couldn't see, Aayina say down. "I do not require your assistance with finding Suitors for either Bahni or Chanda. Just because you somehow rapidly set Courtships for yours doesn't mean I can't figure my own."
Alaric almost laughed at her misconception, "Calvin and Danilo had been in love for years, and I don't think they've figured it out yet, while I learned Blair and Clayton are Courting when they showed up in matching attire. Please do not thing for a moment I've had any impact on either of those couples. I'm simply grateful that Derbie and Lady Ban are progressing more traditionally."
"Some traditions need to be discarded with," she insisted almost vehemently, and Alaric suspected there was a long 온라인카지노게임 there. In the last two generations there'd been many cultural changes already, so he wondered what else she'd want altered.