[Well she doesn't need to really take his hand, and they kind of take up enough space when they walk side by side through the group of people, still going about the festival as if their lives have not been completely changed. And it doesn't take too long for them to get to the bar area where they both get a bottle. Most of them are completely foreign to her, but a drink is a drink right now, and she just wants to be alone with him right now to come to terms with the next steps here.

The second they get back inside the manor though, she is already exhaling.]

I am sorry it has come about this way, [She admits quietly. It is not the first time she has been married off, though this one was unexpected when the ceremony she thought was for the bounty, the harvest, and she was simply chosen with this man she had never seen before.]

You should know though. It is not my first. At least I was not traded this time. [Her brother's doing. This is somehow is less invasive than her first, and that does mean something. Even if she could never bare the man children. Something else that may have to come out if this is truly legitimate.]