Greenling
“No, Lady. Our apologies. Please continue.”
Threwon nodded, and then narrowed her eyes at him. “And how should you properly phrase that sentence?”
I watched while my friend reddened beside me, and my heart wrenched. I decided that he’d had enough torment for one day.
“What he means, Lady, is yes, Lady, and we do apologize. We shall follow your orders, of course, and loyally.”
I dipped my words in honey as I spoke them, even punctuating my response with a small flourish that was somewhere between a bow and a nod. Elegant, but not too flowery, and with just the right amount of hesitance as to convey that I knew we were in the wrong.