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[He didn't know what was more awkward. How she was acting, or how her getting up in a row was making him feel. It was likely part of the reason he kept his lineage to himself. People got weird about it afterward. At least people at the academy. Back in Caerleon, were it still in one piece rather than many, people would have either expected it or simply treated him with great respect while looking to him for leadership of one sort or another.]

My title means nothing here. [He nodded to her.] Think of me as an ordinary man for that is precisely what I am.

[Because he really didn't want it becoming a grand thing. He didn't want it becoming a thing at all, actually. He just wanted to have something close to a peaceful life and he wasn't sure how likely that was going to be.]