Fact: San Juan is not only the oldest city in US territory, it out-dates the earliest attempts of colonizing the states.
That she'd been offhandedly passed off like spoils of war was a fact she liked to ignore. That it was to a boy didn't help.
She and her siblings had watched the Spaniards try, futility, to colonize what they now called Florida. She watched Alfred grow from a toddler to the man he called himself today.
She had a lot of knowledge he could use. Maybe, eventually, he'd stop seeing her as a prize and understand that.
She watched her 'family' start an eating contest, and irritably doubted that it'd be soon. Until then, she might as well join in.
