That makes him laugh outright; the idea is funny to him. He's not mocking her, though - no, his merriment is directed more at the soldiers around him. Not exactly a good look, laughing at the backwater rubes, but at least it's not at her, right? "Miss Greene, you're surrounded by Dendarii hicks who wouldn't be able to place an accent from another District, let alone another planet. You could be speaking the dialect of the actual sewer and they wouldn't know it from the speech of the Emperor. No."

He cocks his head very slightly to the side and smiles something wry - and something a little genuine. "Nobility is just an act. It's why we Vor spend so much time talking about our bloodlines, who-married-who, because it's the closest we can come to providing any actual evidence that we're any better than anyone else. In truth, power is simply a grand lie that people buy into. Create your own lie, pretend it hard enough, and you can be the grandest duchess ever to come from the Georgian Kingdom."