I trust you to watch over my progress, oh sage of the sage.
[It's still challenging not to ruffle Falco's hair as a matter of course. He is eminently rufflable, and Paul has so often been on the other side of the ruffling equation it sometimes feels like striving for equilibrium when he passes the gesture on to Falco. Maybe that's how hair ruffling is learned, like cooking - one person to another over the millennia.
Maybe he's thinking of that to distract himself from other kitchens, ones he was scolded from whenever he snuck into them, full of the thrumming heart of a House that no longer beats.]
We did have cooks. But I meant our reputation as - have you ever heard of Tantalus? Supposedly, he's one of my ancestors.
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[It's still challenging not to ruffle Falco's hair as a matter of course. He is eminently rufflable, and Paul has so often been on the other side of the ruffling equation it sometimes feels like striving for equilibrium when he passes the gesture on to Falco. Maybe that's how hair ruffling is learned, like cooking - one person to another over the millennia.
Maybe he's thinking of that to distract himself from other kitchens, ones he was scolded from whenever he snuck into them, full of the thrumming heart of a House that no longer beats.]
We did have cooks. But I meant our reputation as - have you ever heard of Tantalus? Supposedly, he's one of my ancestors.