"No. When they like you is when it is easy. When they do not is the true test of parenting."

Cyni had lost count how many children he had, in one layer alone there was at least a dozen, many of whom were twins, but there they were trying to rebuild the population of those who could take on the burdens of being the Zama.

"Oriana calls herself 'The Evil Mom Lady' after some boy and his tiger, or I am told. And Fergus is the one that the girls run to when they are told 'no' then get in trouble for asking him the same question. We will probably be put in the same position."