Lemm picks up another sheaf of notes that the Knight piled up. He skims these, too, and his tone is far less prickly this time.
"You're absolutely right. And if their courting was so frowned upon, I'd find some satisfaction in knowing, wouldn't you? Yet more of Hallownest's history someone tried to bury!" Not the Pale King this time, but apparently just as shameful in Lemm's opinion.
Scan for another name he does. Several times he thinks he finds one, only to backtrack and figure out from context that it means something vaguer like my love or turns out to be some floral pet name.
"I'll need time. So much of this is steeped in the frilly language of a lover I'm finding it exceptionally hard to - what does that mean." Lemm scrutinises one of the letters very closely, and rereads something several times. The paper is jerked away from his face very suddenly, and he looks scandalised. "Oh, you can't say that..."
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"You're absolutely right. And if their courting was so frowned upon, I'd find some satisfaction in knowing, wouldn't you? Yet more of Hallownest's history someone tried to bury!" Not the Pale King this time, but apparently just as shameful in Lemm's opinion.
Scan for another name he does. Several times he thinks he finds one, only to backtrack and figure out from context that it means something vaguer like my love or turns out to be some floral pet name.
"I'll need time. So much of this is steeped in the frilly language of a lover I'm finding it exceptionally hard to - what does that mean." Lemm scrutinises one of the letters very closely, and rereads something several times. The paper is jerked away from his face very suddenly, and he looks scandalised. "Oh, you can't say that..."