"I..."  She had to think about that, for a second.  "You know, I was always taught the Lunars could do that, be whatever they wanted...so I<em>knew</em>it, but I didn't.  Do you understand?"  A pause for a few seconds, then she went on.  "I suppose...it's a bit of both?  I've heard the stories, Solars and Lunars bonded together by the gods and such...do you think that's possible, to a lesser degree?  But yet, at the same time...I was a stranger.  For all you knew, your father was right and you were wrong, I could have been an assassin.  A very cleverly disguised one.  People expected needles and poison and all those things.  Who expects an assassin that looks like a soldier?  But you stood up for me, were willing to risk that because you believed me..."<br/><br/>