[ The question and the suggestion of what he deserved got a little glance up in surprise from across the table. ]

Oh, no, definitely not. I wouldn’t have to worry about that. For one thing, I don’t have any family left that might want to arrange that, and even if my Mum was, she hated a lot of that kind of stuff. For another, no one would want their kid attached to my family to try to suggest something like that.

[ There were small positives to being a nobody that was largely seen as a joke, he got to stay on the outside of all the idiocy involved with traditional mage society and the politics of the clock tower… His future self will miss these days. ]