“Let me ask you, Jon,” the dwarf started, “who do you count as your friend? Have you ever noticed how, as Borden’s child, you have never had any real friends? Royalty has no lack of courtly friends. Folks who may seek favor for this or that. Jovan has been close with Leif Chaparral his entire life. And Tala spends plenty of time with Glade and Lawri and Lindholf. But they too are royalty, plus the latter two are your cousins. Is that the only kind of friends a prince and princess should have, other royalty?”
