The words are not exactly comforting. Lancelot shifts uneasily, brow furrowing as he listens.
"You are not making me want to trust him," Lancelot admits, and he takes a slow sip of his drink to steady himself. "... I find it difficult to respect a man who cannot respect me in turn. It..."
His fingers curl around the glass, tighten for a moment before he shakes his head.
"Reynard frightened me. He kept me in a dungeon below his fortress for a week, he invaded my room while I slept. I can tell Gilgamesh found my uncertainty frustrating and laughable both, I can tell he thinks me weak. Yet I cannot respect him purely on the merit of his ability to overpower me. We are too different, I think, for him to ever like me and likewise, for me to trust him."
Lancelot's fingers play around his glass again, then he wets his lips and edges into his other topic.
"The monarchs have tasked him with bringing down Saber. He thinks he can... change her, revert what was done. He asked my help in it. I... well, after the way he reacted to me I suspect he does not want my help. He wants my command of the Seelie forces at his back."
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"You are not making me want to trust him," Lancelot admits, and he takes a slow sip of his drink to steady himself. "... I find it difficult to respect a man who cannot respect me in turn. It..."
His fingers curl around the glass, tighten for a moment before he shakes his head.
"Reynard frightened me. He kept me in a dungeon below his fortress for a week, he invaded my room while I slept. I can tell Gilgamesh found my uncertainty frustrating and laughable both, I can tell he thinks me weak. Yet I cannot respect him purely on the merit of his ability to overpower me. We are too different, I think, for him to ever like me and likewise, for me to trust him."
Lancelot's fingers play around his glass again, then he wets his lips and edges into his other topic.
"The monarchs have tasked him with bringing down Saber. He thinks he can... change her, revert what was done. He asked my help in it. I... well, after the way he reacted to me I suspect he does not want my help. He wants my command of the Seelie forces at his back."