"No," he says. "I've heard of babies being stolen - but there aren't that many people in the world who will steal a baby, and even fewer who'll do it more than once, and they tend to get caught if they live close enough to where they took the kid from. I've heard of babies just plain vanishing inexplicably - but mostly just the princess. And someone could have stolen her too, for all I know. It makes more sense than thinking she dissolved into sunshine or crawled out in the middle of the night never to be seen again. The other few times I've heard of a kid just plain disappearing like that, it turned out something else had happened to them and somebody was lying about what."