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"You don't always need to be wearing red and orange everything, but a red or orange something is a good idea. Otherwise—" He shrugs. People can be silly about things like this; they expect primes to wear their elemental colours, so when it doesn't happen, they fuss.

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"And I can't re-wear things too often?" sighs Kiri. "So far being prime is more about my outfits than it is about politics. I hope it's just because I'm eight. If it's still like this in five years I'm going to set something on fire. Probably nothing very important but still."

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The prince giggles. "Lots of politics is about outfits." (Well, maybe not lots, but - an amount. Fashion is a language, and you have to watch what you say.)

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"What kinds of things can I say? Besides 'look how sweela I am'."

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"How much you care about things - the more times you wear the same thing too close together, the worse you're insulting whoever or whatever you're wearing it for. And how much you know about things - if you wear something somewhere that's not right for it, it means you didn't know any better. If you wear things that are perfect all the time, then you look really smart. If you wear something new or different that's so great other people start copying you, you look like you're really something special, but that's mostly for grown-ups anyway, nobody's going to let a kid set fashion trends unless it's something absolutely amazing. If you wear things that aren't nice enough, you look like you can't afford better. If you wear things that are too nice you look like you're trying too hard - Queen Risella does it all the time. My mom's really good at this stuff," he adds as an aside. "She's always dressed right."

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"So she looks really smart? Is she actually smart?"

(She's still taking notes on all this.)
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"Not at most stuff that isn't clothes. But she's really, really smart at clothes."

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Kiri snorts. "I'd like to look smart, I guess. But I don't dare go shopping myself."

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"Take me shopping with you," he suggests. "Then you'll have all the best things."

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"No, I mean, anywhere I could buy clothes, it will be crowded enough that people will wander within five feet of me. I guess if I brought enough people you could all shoo them away. You and Renny and Aleko maybe. Are you allowed to go shopping with me if you want?"

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"Sure," he says carelessly. What he means by it is: he doesn't know, but he expects so, and he also expects that if he isn't he can contrive to go shopping with her anyway and not land in too much trouble for it.

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"Do you need to bring anyone?"

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"Maybe a guard or something. But maybe not."

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"Do you have your own one?"

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"Not really," he shrugs. "Sometimes there's one who comes with me when I go places, but I don't go places that much and it's not always the same one."

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"Well, I'd like it if you did come shopping with me and Renny and Aleko sometime."

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"I'd like that too!" Also he would like to hug her again now. He holds onto the impulse for a moment to see what she thinks of it.

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Kiri snorts and holds out her arms again.

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Hug! It misses being a tacklehug only in that he does not actually knock her over.

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Which implies a fair amount of gentleness, since Kiri can be knocked over by unevennesses in floors that are in fact several rooms away.

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