The only way where someone can ever be more than a man is when the person is a woman  pretending to be a man.  
It was never Penn wish to don on male clothing and act like a man but it was the only thing she could do if she wanted to survive.  
Living on the streets before she came across a man whose character was erratic and unpredictable,  the man offered Penn to be his heir and Penn had no choice but to accept because her life depends on the protection which the man could offer.  
Penn secret was discovered by her new adopted father who wanted her to remain in her guise as a man to deal with certain issues and cause an insurgency which the man was convinced that Penn was perfect for.  
Keeping her identity  a secret from others and at the same time planning to take down the empire is more than enough work for anybody could handle and as if that was not enough.  She just had to learn some deep secrets about her family that seemed to tilt everything she believed in and fall for the Prince even when she knows that she was trying to dethrone his father.  
Yeah, Penn life was capital letters COMPLICATED.

More than a man

　　Basil was tired as he headed home from his farm, he and his wife might have good crops and goods now since Dinos attention had turned from them but they would prefer having nothing to eat if it means that their daughter was to remain with them. When Penelope had first gone missing, they had done everything they could to search for her but Basil sighed, he wished he had knew better while she was younger so he would not have taught her how to hid her tracks but the girl was good, she took after him in most aspects so strongly that he forgot she was not a boy and raised her like one and now, he keeps hoping and praying that his teachings might be enough to save her and help her survive wherever she was.


Chapter 46