Mm, well...marriage helps formalize a bunch of stuff. Tyin' two important families through marriage is a way to ensure an alliance. Patricians try to marry up into a Dynast family all the time back home. It's an institution 'cause it's got benefits.

It's just that people are gonna attach other more meaningful stuff to it too, y'know? Lotta people ain't gonna say the idea of bein' with someone for the rest of their lives don't sound nice.

[ Surprisingly cynical of Day, maybe, even if he adds a more idealistic addendum to it.

His gaze follows where Ginger is looking. ]

Loookin' for a ring for Mika?