He bats up lightly at the edge of their paper with his fingers, kind of scolding. "Ah-ah. The Lord of Shades is no Beast, that title's already spoken for and I won't have you muddling the records." It's been on his mind, as much as he's tried to put it out. "But I was afraid, Knight. That's probably something we should talk about, isn't it?" He is genuinely asking. There isn't really a precedent in his life for upsetting a Shade Lord...
Anyway, he needs to explain himself or the Knight will think he's going to be like this all the time, when actually he's only going to be like this around other people.
Ugh. No. That can't be right, either, can it.
The thing about coming to know the Knight is that they also come inconveniently packaged with other relationships. If he is rude to the Stag then it reflects poorly on the Knight. And: it won't be the only person, or even the only time he can never use a service again. They are in Hallownest, which means they are both very quickly going to run out of people Lemm hasn't been rude to. He can no longer one-and-done every bug he meets.
"I'll just... ask for the Storerooms, and be quiet," he decides, wearily, against a lifetime of better judgement. "I won't humiliate myself by letting you ask for me." ...Considerate though it is. His chest feels tight.
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He bats up lightly at the edge of their paper with his fingers, kind of scolding. "Ah-ah. The Lord of Shades is no Beast, that title's already spoken for and I won't have you muddling the records." It's been on his mind, as much as he's tried to put it out. "But I was afraid, Knight. That's probably something we should talk about, isn't it?" He is genuinely asking. There isn't really a precedent in his life for upsetting a Shade Lord...
Anyway, he needs to explain himself or the Knight will think he's going to be like this all the time, when actually he's only going to be like this around other people.
Ugh. No. That can't be right, either, can it.
The thing about coming to know the Knight is that they also come inconveniently packaged with other relationships. If he is rude to the Stag then it reflects poorly on the Knight. And: it won't be the only person, or even the only time he can never use a service again. They are in Hallownest, which means they are both very quickly going to run out of people Lemm hasn't been rude to. He can no longer one-and-done every bug he meets.
"I'll just... ask for the Storerooms, and be quiet," he decides, wearily, against a lifetime of better judgement. "I won't humiliate myself by letting you ask for me." ...Considerate though it is. His chest feels tight.