He named his demands.

“Stand up, girl. Respect for your elders is all very well, but one duchess should never grovel to another.” / “I stand corrected.” Mariah rose, eyes dancing but voice demure. “But I am the newest and most inexperienced of duchesses. I can’t begin to match your...your duchessness.” / “You will in time,” her grace said grandly, but her lips quirked with amusement.

I eat fish anymore.

When a 'thought' finds a solution, It could just as well be The nearly instant brute forceness Of all quantum-type paths being And evolving in superposition.