Oh. [He pauses, but then shrugs.] Okay. [Ned is... someone who causes mixed feelings, but they're not all bad, not anymore. He'd been kind to Felix at the infirmary, and he really hadn't had to do that at all. Felix is well aware he's never been all that kind to the piemaker.
But it's a broader question, too, he knows, an extension of the previous one -- how okay is he with his social circle expanding? It's not as though he has to be best friends with them, though. It's not even really as if he has to be anything more than cordial, and he can manage that much for the sake of smooth sailing.]
It's fine. [His mouth quirks.] And just because you're not friends with mine doesn't mean I don't have any. Maybe I should invite Morgana along. [That, he thinks, would be something.] Or Margaret.
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But it's a broader question, too, he knows, an extension of the previous one -- how okay is he with his social circle expanding? It's not as though he has to be best friends with them, though. It's not even really as if he has to be anything more than cordial, and he can manage that much for the sake of smooth sailing.]
It's fine. [His mouth quirks.] And just because you're not friends with mine doesn't mean I don't have any. Maybe I should invite Morgana along. [That, he thinks, would be something.] Or Margaret.