When marriage comes before love, it gets... complicated, to say the least. Iris Cygnet has grown up as the younger princess, the second choice. Not that her parents ever made her feel that way, but she knows it nonetheless. She will not find a love match, for she is to be traded off like a trivial pawn, always has been. That is why she doesn't react when her father asks for the Nortan king's hand in marriage.