"The point of tea's whatever you get out of it," he declares, as if this is something everyone agrees on, which... seems debatable. "Didn't say you had to drink it. It's taste or it's smell or it's having warm hands. Or it's the making of it," he adds as an afterthought, then dismisses this with a hand-flick. "Never mind. If you don't see the point I'll not offer again, I'm still working out what kind of host I am."
He might be backpedalling a bit. The trouble is he never knows what to offer, but every social convention seems to suggest that he should.
"Not very good at small talk," he declares, after a moment. "But I've made no progress to report in my work, so here we are, with me trying to find accommodations to make and coming up short. If you'd like to go back to pretending you don't talk that'd do me some favours in the social department - I'm much better at calling you names and waffling on about relics." All of this is said with a surprising lack of awkwardness, and maybe a small measure of humour. It's just the facts, and Lemm doesn't mind being straightforward.
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"The point of tea's whatever you get out of it," he declares, as if this is something everyone agrees on, which... seems debatable. "Didn't say you had to drink it. It's taste or it's smell or it's having warm hands. Or it's the making of it," he adds as an afterthought, then dismisses this with a hand-flick. "Never mind. If you don't see the point I'll not offer again, I'm still working out what kind of host I am."
He might be backpedalling a bit. The trouble is he never knows what to offer, but every social convention seems to suggest that he should.
"Not very good at small talk," he declares, after a moment. "But I've made no progress to report in my work, so here we are, with me trying to find accommodations to make and coming up short. If you'd like to go back to pretending you don't talk that'd do me some favours in the social department - I'm much better at calling you names and waffling on about relics." All of this is said with a surprising lack of awkwardness, and maybe a small measure of humour. It's just the facts, and Lemm doesn't mind being straightforward.