Planning

Khan had to admit the conversation with Princess Rebecca had left him more preoccupied than he expected.

The conversation ended up involving multiple topics, with Princess Rebecca often finding ways of teasing Khan or exploiting his weakness to familiar affection.

However, the short exchange about Monica left a deep impression in Khan's mind, and no amount of thinking or booze could disperse it. Something about Princess Rebecca's words had struct hard and deep, making him aware of things he had entirely dismissed.

Monica wasn't like Khan. Their crazy and extreme traits matched, but the two were fundamentally different. Khan was a soldier and an explorer who belonged to the trenches or inside a ship, while Monica was a princess, a monster of the political field who could outwit people twice her age.