Could God really appear in someone's dreams and reveal the truth to them?
Edward wondered what could possibly explain the extraordinary changes in Lina. He had known the princess before her coronation, or at least he had thought he knew her, yet the woman before him now seemed to possess an entirely different mind. He could not make sense of it, and his expression gave nothing away.
Lina, for her part, had no idea what was going through his head. She simply found his silence rather strange. Had she said something particularly shocking? She was hardly claiming to be a saint.
In truth, Lina would have loved to make a fortune from her umbrella design. Unfortunately, this world had no patent laws worth mentioning, and the concept of intellectual property protection was practically nonexistent. Once she introduced umbrellas to the market, it would only be a matter of time before other craftsmen began producing their own versions.
