He sits back, after that. Thinking it all over, trying to make sense of the concepts that don't come naturally, things he has only had to get his head around since coming to Hallownest, and then only recently.
Their explanation is as straightforward as it could be, and tells him more detail about the unification of Void that their previous mentions didn't give.
It is also fairly graphic. The violent death of a god could be nothing else, but the Knight's word choices are... notable.
(Lemm can believe the destruction of the Coliseum all the more for their descriptiveness.)
There's a long pause as it all sinks in properly. Then:
"What a -" (a terribly foreign word, here, that sounds vastly unpleasant in the way he stresses it and means something along the lines of 'fuckoff') "- nightmare."
Lemm folds his arms, glaring at the paper, then heaves a sigh of dogged finality and looks up to meet the Knight with a much more even look.
"It obviously wasn't luck that brought that fight to the finish, but there're few ways of saying it otherwise. I'll consider us damn lucky you came out of that the victor."
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Their explanation is as straightforward as it could be, and tells him more detail about the unification of Void that their previous mentions didn't give.
It is also fairly graphic. The violent death of a god could be nothing else, but the Knight's word choices are... notable.
(Lemm can believe the destruction of the Coliseum all the more for their descriptiveness.)
There's a long pause as it all sinks in properly. Then:
"What a -" (a terribly foreign word, here, that sounds vastly unpleasant in the way he stresses it and means something along the lines of 'fuckoff') "- nightmare."
Lemm folds his arms, glaring at the paper, then heaves a sigh of dogged finality and looks up to meet the Knight with a much more even look.
"It obviously wasn't luck that brought that fight to the finish, but there're few ways of saying it otherwise. I'll consider us damn lucky you came out of that the victor."