#because of course Sivel would take that as something to get all 'mother hen' over

[soulsxng]

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"...I wouldn't concern yourself. It is likely that they were nothing to brag about."

"But you were! And still are! Which is why he has to...explicitly...shout your endeavors...to the masses...?"

"Thank you for the reassurance, but that is not what I was concerned about. When he speaks about me in that manner, it is half bragging on his behalf, and half on mine...perhaps more than half on mine, now that I think about it. But I digress. I was trying to determine how much of his silence is because some part of him knows that if he were to broadcast specifics, he would likely have over half the gentry-- Council or no-- would likely be looking to maim him in some manner or another."

"...Which gives me a headache, as I again wonder just how exactly Iomhar has made it to the age he has. With how much trouble he has inadvertently gotten himself into with his antics over the years, it was by nothing less than a miracle some days, I would imagine. The hidden intervention of Ippuru and Sayek themselves. Something to that effect."