Of course the protagonist of the series is Jessie, a healer from the Blue Tribe, and her love interest is Eagle, a citizen of the Empire. Any citizen of the empire who "seduces" a Blue Ramun tribe member can be imprisoned any Blue Tribe member who falls in love with a citizen would be looked on as selfish (for putting their own happiness above their duty as a healer) and stupid (for allowing infatuation to overrule their judgement) by their tribe. The Blue People have powerful healing abilities that can be preserved and passed down only if they intermarry with a member of their own tribe, so the Silkdeep Empire has a vested interest in keeping the power of their Blue Doctors from being weakened or "tainted" by the birth of half-blooded children.
Well, in the middle of night I found her in the pool with her boyfriend making out. "Once when my parents went away for the weekend, my older sister had to baby-sit. I got up to get a flashlight in my closet, and when I got back, I tripped over one of my (many) shoes and landed on the bed right next to him! So we start kissing, you know, just the innocent stuff, but it quickly got steamier! Before we knew it, we heard my sister's car in the driveway, so I had to put on my shirt and he had to get his shoes on and make it to the back door in lightning speed! It was so devious!"
There happened to be a thunderstorm that night, so right in the middle of the movie the power went out. "My parents and sister were out of the house one night, so I invited over this boy I had a crush on to watch a movie. Perhaps we should've picked a more private place to make out!" She was so mad and didn't speak to me EVER again. Right before we went back into the theater, we started making out! Right at that moment, my friend walked out the door and saw us. Before the movie her BF said he wanted to buy us popcorn, so I went with him. I thought her BF was really hot, and he must have thought I was too because he kept staring at me. "I went to the movies with an old friend, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's friend.