#{♟️alternatively make it something completely mundane or something he should absolutely recognize. he needs more sleep 💞 };

[ambitiousness]

At this point, Gale is no stranger to being handed all manner of strange objects, usually arcane in nature, generally with the intent of either identifying it or consuming it for the purposes of stabilizing his condition.

So when he's handed yet another, at first he doesn't think to question it... that is, until his magical intuition fails him. He stares at the thing that's been thrust into his palms unwillingly, brows furrowed, before looking up at the one who has put it there quizzically.

"I don't mean to sound ungrateful, so please don't think that I am," he begins. "Perish the thought. You know better than I that we are all endlessly in debt to your charity. It's just that--what I mean to say is--" He stumbles over his words, hating to admit that his encyclopedic knowledge has pulled short. "What is it?" he finally asks, exasperated.

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