A seemingly random inquiry about both Alphinaud and sweets in the same span of breaths? What makes that so obvious, then?
At least he has the decency to clean up his mess. She can put her reports back in the proper order later.
"I wonder if you've heard Alphinaud's version of this tale, foremost." He is like to omit all the embarrassing portions, and even Krile does not delight in them unless the boy is in earshot and paying attention. "Or whether he has put you up to the task himself, to discover secondhand what I will say."
To modify his own telling in the future. Alphinaud is wary of attempting to get one over on Krile where she can find him afterward, if only because her store of ammunition is so much the greater.
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At least he has the decency to clean up his mess. She can put her reports back in the proper order later.
"I wonder if you've heard Alphinaud's version of this tale, foremost." He is like to omit all the embarrassing portions, and even Krile does not delight in them unless the boy is in earshot and paying attention. "Or whether he has put you up to the task himself, to discover secondhand what I will say."
To modify his own telling in the future. Alphinaud is wary of attempting to get one over on Krile where she can find him afterward, if only because her store of ammunition is so much the greater.