[ He knows what that means - hunting through the old documents in the library, looking for similarities, phrasings or certain juridical practices of old that might just further their cause. It sounds, to put it bluntly, incredibly taxing. He's on a learning curve regarding law documents and legalese and he knows just getting through one document might easily take him the better part of an hour. Better choose carefully, he thinks.
Anyone else calling him boy would have been thrown out of a nearby window, really. Anyone else. ]
Certainly.
[ Leaving his desk behind, he follows the other man. Yet another opportunity, presented and accepted. Some part of him realises that it's a dangerous balance, this game they play; one false step and there'd be a very, very long fall waiting on either of them, though Jean Louis' got no doubt he'd find a way to land on his feet. He always has, after all. It just that... he'd really rather not. Might just, perhaps, be a tiny bit worried about it, about what it would entail. He pushes the thought aside, forcefully.
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Anyone else calling him boy would have been thrown out of a nearby window, really. Anyone else. ]
Certainly.
[ Leaving his desk behind, he follows the other man. Yet another opportunity, presented and accepted. Some part of him realises that it's a dangerous balance, this game they play; one false step and there'd be a very, very long fall waiting on either of them, though Jean Louis' got no doubt he'd find a way to land on his feet. He always has, after all. It just that... he'd really rather not. Might just, perhaps, be a tiny bit worried about it, about what it would entail. He pushes the thought aside, forcefully.
After all, what's more dangerous than that? ]