"But... what happens if you need to meet someone in a different city at a certain day and time and they don't have a clock tower? How would you keep track of time for that?" Because being late doesn't seem like much of an option with some people.

"Nobility is passed from one generation to the next in my world, unless a lord or lady falls out of favor and needs to be replaced." She shrugs lightly at that, as if that's simply a normal thing. "Or, as in the case of my family, there's extenuating circumstances to make them noble. That's much more rare, though." So how did she manage it, hm?

She cracks a small smile between sips of her ale. "So similar and yet so different. I never would have expected that, even if I should have."