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"That's what I'm trying to tell you, Marcus," Thomas says in a frustrated tone. "No, Lucida doesn't have the experience to tell when she's being played.  She's eight years old.  She's hardly spoken to a boy, let alone a man who was interested in her.  And when you tell me that this prince is known for being a playboy, and is all of a sudden interested in my daughter, who has none of a traditional Mamono's instincts, what am I supposed to think?"

He calms down and sips his glass of ice water, pointing a finger. "It's not that I don't trust your judgement.  It's that I don't trust his.  And until I meet him, he remains off limits.  And until I think Lucida is mentally old enough, they'll be sitting at the kiddie table."