[He hesitates briefly at the question, at the strange form of address that might be a title or a placeholder name or a word that just isn't quite bridging the translation gap. The matter of his name sure seems to have become a much more regular question, in this time since he died and misplaced it, than it had been for years prior to that.
...Maybe because his brother had gone around talking about him to enough people that few had felt any need to ask him.
At any rate, he has a great excuse to dodge the name question for a minute longer.]
Did you say, one of the wraiths talks? Aloud?? I couldn't convince any of them to talk, not even pictorially!
[It's a sincere complaint, too - he spent a while at those drawings.]
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...Maybe because his brother had gone around talking about him to enough people that few had felt any need to ask him.
At any rate, he has a great excuse to dodge the name question for a minute longer.]
Did you say, one of the wraiths talks? Aloud?? I couldn't convince any of them to talk, not even pictorially!
[It's a sincere complaint, too - he spent a while at those drawings.]