Well, that's about as good an answer as she's likely to get out of this one, and she's pleased to have one at all. He doesn't seem like he was lying for her benefit or anything.

Her face falls slightly at the question and she shrugs, not a very princesslike gesture. "We've been at war. For ten years. Death and death and more death, it's all there is. I'll go mad if it's all I think about, so..."

She fingers the edge of a photo of her sister, smiling the way she only ever does for Sonia. "I'm remembering. Or making sure someone else remembers. Somebody has to."