"'Tis only flattery if it is untrue. With your permission, I shall take my leave, and prepare for the Court. With luck, mayhap this will lessen the base insults of being a tasteless barbarian."<br/><br/>He headed back home with her dismissal, idly wondering like it felt like he had just barely escaped with his skin. He needed to meet the Winter Knight, and the weapon he had commissioned should be finished already, so he could pick it up at the same time. Having skill in multiple weapon types would also deal with the rumors, he knew.