" Books were so simple about these things, fairy tales so straightforward! There were peasants, and then there were kings and queens. Sometimes there were people who made shoes or were soldiers. Occasionally there was priest supported by the church. But that was all; all the types of professions, all the different economic classes of people.
Maybe, like hair color, wealth in the outside world was more nuanced and subtly shaded than her stories suggested. "

― Liz Braswell , What Once Was Mine