"Doesn't change that you are," Bert pointed out, using his own brand of logic as he was prone to do.
"You're just like Roland. He didn't want to be treated special, either. Not that he was divine or anything, just Gilead's heir." And Bert always had treated him like anybody else - in a sense - but that was because they'd grown up together. They'd been joined at the hip since before either of them could even walk or talk.
But this was a little different than being the Dinh's son. Then again, if Alessa was telling him to treat her like a normal girl....
"Heh, probably shouldn't tell me to treat you just like a normal girl," he teased. "It'll end in tears. If experience tells me true, mine after you slap me." Alessa reminded him of Aileen, and that had been something of a disaster.