"Mother had to be the one to initiate. Stars don't notice us unless we get their attention. We're just too small," he said, "It'd be like noticing one ant in particular, although of course we are still superior to ants, even in the eyes of stars."

He thought on it for a minute. He wasn't the romantic that he used to be, not since his mother's death.

"I might try again, perhaps, once I've grown stronger," he said, and by that he meant 'once he became king', although he was mostly keeping that plan under wraps for now to spare himself humiliation if he failed.