The thing about Cassandra Morelli and in fact, Aria had been contemplating this for quite some time, analyzing it with the meticulousness she typically reserved for things she had not completely failed to grasp yet was that she was, by no means, simply a problem or an obstacle. She was definitely not a person to be managed, neutralized or diplomatically circumvented only, for that matter. She is a woman who has experienced a deep passionate almost territorial love for her brother through the twenty years, a love which was so intense that only a person assigned the role at the age of eight could have such a profound feeling, and only certain children could seriously take their roles to an extent of considering them as their identity and not merely affection.
At the age of eight, Cassandra
