Now he was not only coping with the university classes, but providing tutoring to three girls, thanks to the prompting of Frances. Without her interve...tion, he would have remained a singleton, working on his own without any reference to the world around him.He gazed over at Frances, coming to the conclusion that she had made him love her, just by treating him as a normal human being; a person worth talking with and learning from; not a loner to be ignored or sneered at.She may have approached. " I assume a similar scenario will play out between you and Nora, David. Correct?" Darla asked, ignoring her mother's comment."Similar but not identical," he said."Assuming both Joe and Nora choose the latter course of action, I'm cut adrift without a sex partner. Correct?" Correct," Carol said."No," David commented."No?" Darla and Carol enquired at the same time."Mom stated she'd accept and comply with a demand for monogamy. I've never said how I'd react to a like demand." David took his. " I coaxed."My father is King Jonas," she supplied.She's a bloody Princess."There is something missing, I thought that Allard said that you grew up with him and that the queen used to visit him before she became queen." My mother died giving birth to my brother. Father married Kristin four years ago." So you are the heir to the throne?" Yes, until I join Kassandra's sisterhood, then I can abdicate." I can see that you'd rather be a sister than a queen." I was Called, Milord," she stated. " I was afraid you might say that Uncle Con," I agreed. "Shape-shifting draws on many things, the Light only being one of them. Still, every McKesson knows to value your insights. What would you recommend I do?" What everyone does, here on Obsidian when they hope to set foot on the path to new understanding." Uncle Con opened his mouth as if to say more, but hesitated, waiting for me to answer my own question."Of course," I continued for him after a moments thought. "I need to make a trip to.