cdnflirt: Sorry about the delay in my post. I fell asleep. >.>
I'm not sure who "the young lady" is you're referring to, but Princess Althena is the adopted daughter of the king who sent us on the mission. And she is far from a "young lady". She is in fact, several hundred years old. If you read page 17, down to the 17th post, you'll see where Conall thought that Althena's virtue had been compromised and was all up in arms about it. And you'll see where Althena told him:
"Conall." She said, nodding her head in a bit of a greeting. "I neither desire, nor require, your permission to love or marry whom I choose. My, father, while I love him dearly, has no more say over whom I will marry than you do. I lived many hundreds of years before the king was even a small spec on the horizon of time." Althena paused momentarily and shook her head slightly as if in thought. Then with a look of sheer determination, and absolute authority over her own life in her eyes, she looked directly at Conall again, a slight edge to her voice. "No, Conall, do not presume to tell me whom I may marry, or when. Nor should you think you have the authority over me as to "allow", or disallow, anything in regards to me."
Which, in turn, caused Conall to feel he had failed in protecting Althena, and he ran off half cocked and almost got himself killed! Ain't that right, Kyle?

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