In theory, I think the paperwork where I'm from is meant to keep people from entering into a union on a whim. In practice it just makes it harder to part ways when things get bad.

['bad' is an understatement, but she doesn't want to start airing the dirty laundry the whole world saw here, and not just becuase she's not sure how much Era would understand of just why she had to leave.

She does chuckle a little at the next comment, though]

Fair enough. Although I don't recognize where your lovely getup is from. Home is a few decades earlier than a lot of people here, so it might be something I haven't seen yet.