It takes Lemm a second to register that the thing he just thought was addressed on the page, and then he tenses stiff as a board and stares at the words like he's been poisoned by them. The subtlety helps, but Lemm is mortified regardless.
"I-" so gruffly "-I'm sure you will."
He rests his elbows on the desk and folds his hands together in front of his face and stares gravely down at their pen still scratching. Maybe if he doesn't react it won't mean anything. (He is not reacting! Except that not reacting is incredibly obvious and telling.) He taps the drawing.
"...Dream... Nail, then. And the Dreamers..." He draws three masks, quickly and with slightly inaccurate strokes, because he's moving on - "An unappealing task, for Herrah the Beast to bargain so heavily and so well." Lemm taps the stack of saved notes from their last Q&A. "And this... Dream Nail let you through?"
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"I-" so gruffly "-I'm sure you will."
He rests his elbows on the desk and folds his hands together in front of his face and stares gravely down at their pen still scratching. Maybe if he doesn't react it won't mean anything. (He is not reacting! Except that not reacting is incredibly obvious and telling.) He taps the drawing.
"...Dream... Nail, then. And the Dreamers..." He draws three masks, quickly and with slightly inaccurate strokes, because he's moving on - "An unappealing task, for Herrah the Beast to bargain so heavily and so well." Lemm taps the stack of saved notes from their last Q&A. "And this... Dream Nail let you through?"