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* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: {{spoiler|Ashlin}} for {{spoiler|Savedra}}

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Crown Prince Nikos and his foreign bride Ashlin. Their marriage is a fractious one, although they appear to respect each other and the problems can't be laid at the feet of either of them; it's simply that their personalities clash, they aren't really to each other's sexual tastes, and both were in relationships when the marriage was arranged; Nikos got to keep his mistress, Savedra, but Ashlin had to abandon her lover, possibly explaining her unhappiness and anger.

* [[Easy Sex Change]]: Averted, despite the magic of the setting. Savedra has an adam's apple and only small breasts, and retains functional male genitalia; given that she's from an exceedingly rich family and has their full support, this suggests that magical transformation assistance only aids in mild cosmetic ways.

* [[Feminist Fantasy]]: it doesn't hit you too hard over the head with it, but Selafai and elsewhere appear to be fairly egalitarian as to gender. We see many women in what would be considered male roles in our world, including a female police inspector and captain of the guard, and nobody acts like this is unusual. Crown Prince Nikos isn't a warrior, while his wife Ashlin is, and Savedra, while not a warrior, certainly knows how to fight and is an effective counter-assassin.

* [[If It's You It's Okay]]: {{spoiler|Savedra and Ashlin}} both admit that they aren't normally attracted to people of the same gender.

* [[Law of Inverse Fertility]]: {{spoiler|Nikos and Ashlin}} are supposed to have children, so of course it doesn't work out; but when she has sex with {{spoiler|Savedra}}, pregnancy is inevitable exactly because they don't want to get caught.