(But note that this is a man-bites-dog sort of mention: the way she highlights that choice implies that, far from being common, as far as Aella knows, it hardly ever happens and this party was highly unusual, and Aella disapproves of it being so unusual & so is making a point of publicly stating it happened at her party in the hopes of setting an example.)
This is a good point, but I don’t intuitively see that it’s particularly strong evidence that it must be unusual. I would expect an event like this to have more explicit rules than the average party.
(But note that this is a man-bites-dog sort of mention: the way she highlights that choice implies that, far from being common, as far as Aella knows, it hardly ever happens and this party was highly unusual, and Aella disapproves of it being so unusual & so is making a point of publicly stating it happened at her party in the hopes of setting an example.)
This is a good point, but I don’t intuitively see that it’s particularly strong evidence that it must be unusual. I would expect an event like this to have more explicit rules than the average party.