[He doesn't consider it rude if it's enough to draw a wan smile from him. ]
That is because I am her retainer, not her butler, and still a noble in my own right. House Vestra is unique amoung the great houses for many reasons - our servile relationship to House Hresvelg one of them.
[There's something in the way Nico bites her lip that lulls Hubert to a patient silence. But whatever she'd been considering seems to have passed, and a fleeting worry in the back of his head with it. ]
I simply have a different area of expertise. While others were following their parents to learn a trade, I followed my father to the palace to learn governance and subterfuge. If you asked me to forge a weapon, I wouldn't know where to begin.
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That is because I am her retainer, not her butler, and still a noble in my own right. House Vestra is unique amoung the great houses for many reasons - our servile relationship to House Hresvelg one of them.
[There's something in the way Nico bites her lip that lulls Hubert to a patient silence. But whatever she'd been considering seems to have passed, and a fleeting worry in the back of his head with it. ]
I simply have a different area of expertise. While others were following their parents to learn a trade, I followed my father to the palace to learn governance and subterfuge. If you asked me to forge a weapon, I wouldn't know where to begin.