Beards?

[Clockwork Ninja]

Guys you need to pay attention to the author better. Arioch has explained repeatedly that there is no romantic pair bonding in Loroi culture- there is no prohibition against lesbian intercourse and what we would call a male-female romance is considered to be a form of insanity. So the idea of Loroi females publicly pretending to be in a relationship with a human male as a "beard" to cover for their liaison with another Loroi female makes no sense.

Sometimes a beard is just a beard: