This law is very rarely enforced nowadays, particularly among commoners.  But Aylia has just the sort of parents to make a really big deal about it throughout her childhood, in order to make sure she was afraid to disobey them.  . . . She does disobey, of course, but this is one of the contributing factors to her defiance being passive-aggressive, rather than open and obvious.  This strip features a tradition of noble coming-of-age parties: a speech by every member of the immediate family.



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