Ah... Well, to be perfectly honest, I was quite young. Father knew when to stop in the storytelling before I lost interest.

[ Infrastructure repair and economic growth... not that interesting to a young princess! Who knew. ]

And these are only tales passed down from generation. I imagine they've changed somewhat in the re-telling.

[ To put it bluntly, she doesn't know, and doesn't want to have him coasting on what may be a happier fabrication painted over an uglier reality. Who knows how things might have been lost or added in translation? And yet, finding it hard to disappoint him, she adds - ]

But you're here, and you are evidently as real as anything. If you want it to be so, you can certainly make it so.