[her grandmother was the crown princess, it was true, and she had a set boundary of etiquette to follow, but from what Tinya had been told and read in her grandmother's journals, she felt stifled by the rigidity of Bgztlian society and its expectations. she just had to be her]

It's...harder when a child is brought into things. After all, no one wants someone to take a grudge against the parents and hold it against the child. Fortunately, that didn't happen in my mother's case, she was always [a wry twist to her lips] exceptionally well-behaved.