"Mother, please, don't be unreasonable. Talk with father; he was in the military!" "Your father was an<em>officer,</em>" she said. "Not someone who goes out on the front lines, and fights... monsters! It's all well and good to be friendly, but what will you do when he gets killed? What will you do when his Queen decides that we are a threat, and we have to be eliminated, hmm? Do you think he will choose you, over them?"