Dion:

I feel like a seventeen-year-old teenager who wants to ask the most popular girl in school to prom with him. Ever since Theodor stormed into my study so violently, he's been punishing me with icy silence. I realize I need to talk to her, but he should also give me time. He can't expect everything to happen overnight.

When Philipp and he come home from school with Abby, I'm still sitting in the parliamentary session and starting to get really angry. As the door to the throne room opens, Theodor looks at me; it's pouring with rain outside. "Theodor and Philipp, you will now follow the session." With that,...