"You still have it," he says, as a small smile manages to show itself. "It really is nice. So that's... like your equivalent of marriage, right?"

Sort of? He knows there's more to it from what he's heard. Stone's society is pretty different from what's common in most human kingdoms, but of course it would be since he's not human. There's really no comparing it to anything he knows, actually, but that's the beauty of differences between cultures and species.