Hm, the Master Warden of the Laboratory Corner? [This is teasing, but,] I like the sound of that.

[Not that Palamedes knows the first thing about putting together a bookcase, either, but he figures if Viktor points at the right spots he can wave a hammer? Maybe? It's, mm, the latest in a long string of pleasantly ordinary things that bloom warm in his chest - a whole miniature library in Viktor's lab? The easy suggestion that he can just hang around the lab without work to do, even warmer—]

I have read several books, actually. [Mmph. He leans in to bump his shoulder against Viktor's, amused.] And I'm afraid my reputation has always been questionable, but I'm happy to drag you down with me.