[The way nobles treat others, sometimes he wonders why he let himself get mixed up with them at all. He doesn't regret his time with Claudia, but she wasn't any different. His own indifference to it was something he missed now and then from his days with the reapers.]

He also still has his nose in the air to anything and everything he considers beneath him. There's a lot he'll have to learn if he's to survive here. People in this world don't answer to rank and file like they used to, but he'll see that sooner or later. [A sip of that tea.] He'll have to. You did yourself. Give him time to figure it out.

[Rather than answer, he'll simply point at the boy and let it linger a few moments. He means it.]