"Of course. People will respect you more that way."

Oh, in other circumstances she'd shamelessly use her family connections. When you're related to the king of Eire or from a very famous family and you want to get into a good restaurant or movie premier... but those are minor things. For school or serious things, she will do it on her own merits.

Or her mum will thump her. (Not really... but disappointed mother is ... not... good and she would have done it otherwise.)

"Would you like a ribbon?" This is obviously to Dusk as she pulled out a sparkly pink ribbon like Pickles wore. "I've also got green and blue. I'm out of red."