"It does show up rather often in storytelling traditions, doesn't it?" Yrael mwrrs, considering. "Daughters deceiving their father while he is drunk; a brother unknowingly attracted to his long-lost twin sister; a son prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother, sent away to be raised elsewhere so that - irony of ironies - he doesn't recognize his parents at the crucial moment."

The wayward young Princeling's developing crush on his mother's half-sister was quickly quashed, thankfully.