Ivee's grin was back in full force. "Pretty dang neat, isn't it?" she said. She looked at the queen. "My only question is if this is going to interfere with us running our businesses. We're both set to inherit from our dads, and we love our jobs so much, we don't want to give them up."
Then she gave the queen a warm smile. "Not that this would mean you wouldn't still have our friendship, of course."