Given Rhia's father, that she might actually understand. "Mother says that there are lots of any place, all of them just as real as any other, so maybe there are. Are you from somewhere that people judge your lineage rather than who you are as a person? Yeeech, that's like a small shriveled berry, no sweetness left." Of course, some had judged Merlin by their father, but also by their grandfather, but that hardly needed a last name. Everyone in Fincayria knew about the son of the evil king who took him down. Especially after the mess he was made when he was granted the flowering harp.

She did worry how he was going to handle going back to Earth without her there to keep him humble.