[It was just a shame life wasn't quite so likely to turn out as well as fairy tales do--there are seldom happily ever afters.]

Imagining yourself as the prince of a foreign country or trying to rebuild one?

[She smiles for a moment looking around to see if anyone was close by that could overhear them. Riza pulls a small packet out that she'd hidden in her skirt to hand to him.]

I've got something that might help with that.

[Sounds a bit like a drug deal or something doesn't it?]