Shira moved from the door to sit on the edge of Cassidy's bed. "I don't know a lot of Protocol, so I don't know the appropriate Queen response," she said carefully. "But when my mother did something that upset my father, she would let him fuss over her. It didn't fix the fact that she'd upset him or worried him, but it was an obvious gesture that she was sorry. And sometimes that was all that was needed."