"Oh, that's true," she conceded on the matter of their family. "But the ambassador's not keeping her. She's his mistress. Maybe. That's what the ladies say anyway, but she's not exactly a maegi. She's young and she has a pretty dress and a veil." Genna warmed to the story with excitement in her voice. "But I bumped into her because I was nervous 'cause the ambassador is a pirate prince- did you know?- and he's handsome. He's got pretty eyes, like Prince Myrwin but as pretty as Jaer Sand's who His Grace won't knight because I asked him. And when I bumped into her she said I was a child of the weirwood, but she couldn't say what it meant. The ambassador helped a little and she tried but I'm not sure. Do you know? Maybe it's just that I pray in a godswood." She was unsatisfied with this explanation however. "But maybe they like me is all."