“You’re at more a disadvantage than a normal Sidhe. You haven’t the experience of it.” He did not say it unkindly, and he did not mean it as such, but it was true enough. “They will all tell you what you want to hear. Anything to gain them their position. And you do what to hear it.”
He said the last as if breaking hard news, sympathetic but not resigned to it. “You have a luxury your mother did not. You have me.”
And he could tell her which words held truth, though he left his own to her interpretation. He could also take away some of that pressure in the meantime. Naming an heir was not so good as having one of her own, but it was something.