"Ah! Good! Obviously. I'd be no use in-" Just his mistake to talk over their second line, but he stops in his tracks as soon as he reads the first part of it. "Oh..."
He'd had a concern there that something might be expected of him - it would have been setting him up to fail. It's a relief this isn't the case. More than that... The Knight is just telling him. Because they thought he'd like to know.
What.
Lemm attempts to rally his usual level of acrimony and only half-succeeds.
"Well. Correct. The Hollow Knight lives, that's relevant to my-" not to his work, he already agreed on that, can't use that as a get-out-of-jail-card "-to me."
His posture closes in a little, and he looks away - it's very foreign to say exactly what's on his mind, and he obviously doesn't like the way it tastes.
"It is relevant to me. But you didn't have to tell me a thing. I'm just someone who spent too long staring at a statue."
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He'd had a concern there that something might be expected of him - it would have been setting him up to fail. It's a relief this isn't the case. More than that... The Knight is just telling him. Because they thought he'd like to know.
What.
Lemm attempts to rally his usual level of acrimony and only half-succeeds.
"Well. Correct. The Hollow Knight lives, that's relevant to my-" not to his work, he already agreed on that, can't use that as a get-out-of-jail-card "-to me."
His posture closes in a little, and he looks away - it's very foreign to say exactly what's on his mind, and he obviously doesn't like the way it tastes.
"It is relevant to me. But you didn't have to tell me a thing. I'm just someone who spent too long staring at a statue."