Gus was a first year law student. He had spent six months studying law and three months studying paperwork. He had six and half years more studying to go, most of which would be devoted to time keeping, ergonomics and paperwork , before he could practice law.

Lawyers have to account for every five minutes of their time, and to adapt to this gruelling and inhuman work condition takes years of special skills training. Paperwork has a special place in law. If a plumber loses his paperwork for October he might get into trouble with the tax office, but if a lawyer loses his paperwork for October all kinds of people might go to jail by accident, including the lawyer. Interestingly, of the three months paper work training Gus had received, a whole month had been devoted to shredding. He was sure he would understand eventually. Perhaps after he had completed the origami term. The way Gus saw it, paperwork and time keeping are vital, but not nearly as interesting as splashing around in the pool, plus the diving was giving him a keen sense of timing anyway.

 What Gus and his mother didn’t know was that the kings had already decided to make Gus a prince. This would mean that an awful lot of paperwork. When Gus was made a prince the description of the Kingdom's royalty would have to be changed from including "one ordinary prince and fourteen princes of various additional kinds" to "one ordinary prince and fifteen princes of various kinds". To achieve this change in a correct efficient and timely manner about 1673 sundry and various company representatives, dignitaries and media types would have visit the kingdom for two weeks and lie around poolside drinking lemonade and getting underfoot.

Being environmentally conscious the Kings thought it best to leave this paperwork until most of the current Kingdom stationary needed replacing anyway. The kings were rather fond of their present neon pink embossed letter head, so Gus would have to wait. The kings, being considerate royals, were also aware that so many visitors wanting to use the kingdom pools would probably disrupt Gus's rigorous training schedule.

Gus's mother was the one who was really keen on the whole idea, anyway. Gus actually hadn't even thought about being a sundry prince and while he realised anyone could be a prince he had always seen himself as a swimmer and perhaps a barrister.

What the Kings didn’t know then, but we do know now, because we have read it in subsequent histories of the kingdom, is that Gus did eventually become a prince at the advanced age of 21. His elevation caused 1678 people to go to the trouble of visiting Luff. One of the visiting company representatives turned out to be Gus synchronised diving partner. She had practiced alone for years, also sure that one day the diving partner of her dreams would fall into her life. Gail was supposed to research the princely word change for her company's roofing material catalogue so she spent most of her time somersaulting into the clear cool water of Luff’s salt water swimming pool. She moved to Luff, married Gus, and won Gold medals at the Olympics with him. They later had seven dogs and an in-ground spa. History is unclear about saunas. We will never be certain if they had a sauna unless someone unearths a box of receipts that Luff's plumber, Charles, lost one October. But that is history.