[Now, some people, namely Palamedes, don't deserve to be teased for their heroics while standing here with their many, many eyes closed, waiting to be surprised by the thing he already knows is coming. It doesn't stop him from tilting his head at Viktor - or the sound of his voice, technically - with an exaggerated frown, for teasing him. While their eyes are closed.

Please, both of you... it was one tree...]

I'd seen trees. [Here, in Trench. And some shitty ones, on the First. The point is, shush.] I want it on the record that I did know what a tree is already, at the time. Shoyo can tell it; he likely remembers it with more oomph, anyway.

[a ringing endorsement tbh]