Aquilo blinked and inclined his head in my direction pensively, "Now that you said it, I never have given that much thought."

"About what, Aquilo?" Zeo asked curiously.

"About our privilege and what it looks like from outside looking inside."

Ester took a deep breath and sighed, "Well, the reality is we are born high above the social pyramid. Father said that we exist technically on a different plane of reality from the rest."

"My own father said the same thing," Himiko followed and smiled a little, "Try as hard as we might, we are just different from other people."

"You really do," Cady agreed as she glanced at me quietly before continuing, "Honestly speaking, when I first met you all earlier, it's like I am in front of someone so near yet so far. Like there's this huge invisible wall that separates you all from the real world."

Loki grunted loudly as if she was woefully ignorant of a fact, "That's because that's what it should be. We, monarchs, are separated from the common folks by