[ Horror, no. Worry, yes. The boy who rewrote himself and erased his family to please Val Royeaux would have hidden this, too, given half a reason. And if Bastien’s not that boy anymore, he also isn’t Byerly, willing and able (though not genuinely happy, Bastien would guess) to wink at revulsion.
But it doesn’t sound like revulsion. It sounds like unfamiliarity and mild judgment and being mostly left alone. ]
Well.
[ No lying; he can’t say he doesn’t care, and he needs a minute to finish deciding how much.
But he hates Byerly’s wince, so he smiles and tries, ] It is like fishing with your bare hands, [ with a moderately obscene downward grabbing gesture to illustrate. ]
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But it doesn’t sound like revulsion. It sounds like unfamiliarity and mild judgment and being mostly left alone. ]
Well.
[ No lying; he can’t say he doesn’t care, and he needs a minute to finish deciding how much.
But he hates Byerly’s wince, so he smiles and tries, ] It is like fishing with your bare hands, [ with a moderately obscene downward grabbing gesture to illustrate. ]