"no, that's right, it normally wouldn't. But my genes did. My birth family had been working royalty for countless generations. As far back as my research has shown we've been assassins, intriguers, scouts, and infiltrators. When the alicorns power began to falter my family fled, fearing what would happen to them once people figured out they were more than a regular noble family. My mother traded me; still unhatched to the merchants I would be raised by for transportation as far away from the charted world as possible."
He stopped to catch his breath "espionage is what we've known forever, i had no choice but to make it my way of life. What about you, Rigel, your affinity with glass is more than unique, you must have something interesting to say too."