It was much the same for me. It was dangerous, of course, and I never forgot that our mission was to gain allies in the war, but at the same time, I was finally able to go out into the world and see the places I had only read about. Not only that, but I was getting to do things my way, not my father's.

[Did he have instructions and goals he was to accomplish? Of course, but how he accomplished them was left in solely his hands for the first time.]

The world may have proven...more distracting than I thought it would be.