"More or less." Sorry, his own tact is still lacking. He can't really elaborate enough to say don't frighten yourself worse with it to say exactly what he means, and partly he doesn't dare assume they'd take that well to begin with. "Go slow, at least."
Hopefully that will do. Lemm shrugs loosely, and gives their hand a faint squeeze to give them some signal he's about to let go. They had almost been using him as an anchor a moment ago; wouldn't do to let them topple backwards. Not during a serious conversation like this, anyway.
"Don't know if it would or wouldn't. All this is beyond me. But you should know the details before they earn the label of 'things I've kept to myself'." He looks mildly uncomfortable. "I'll be brief. They went all rigid when I raised my voice, same sort of thing I suspect. And they clashed with Hornet," he finally tells them, and folds his hands together to stop himself fidgeting. A little of the guilty admission tone creeps back in: "She'd have clashed with me otherwise."
'Clashed with.' She would have skewered him. Lemm decisively leaves this out.
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Date: 2023-02-14 05:38 pm (UTC)Hopefully that will do. Lemm shrugs loosely, and gives their hand a faint squeeze to give them some signal he's about to let go. They had almost been using him as an anchor a moment ago; wouldn't do to let them topple backwards. Not during a serious conversation like this, anyway.
"Don't know if it would or wouldn't. All this is beyond me. But you should know the details before they earn the label of 'things I've kept to myself'." He looks mildly uncomfortable. "I'll be brief. They went all rigid when I raised my voice, same sort of thing I suspect. And they clashed with Hornet," he finally tells them, and folds his hands together to stop himself fidgeting. A little of the guilty admission tone creeps back in: "She'd have clashed with me otherwise."
'Clashed with.' She would have skewered him. Lemm decisively leaves this out.