He doesn't understand why the boy is calling him Lord; he has no status nor land to qualify for it, and even if he did at one point, he thinks it's more likely he's killed a lord than he's been called one. But he is not designed to argue about trivial things, so he says nothing as he follows Diarmuid outside and looks at the buildings in the distance.

He only needs a short moment to think of a question that has yet to be answered for him.

"How do these cards work," he asks, pulling the supposed living stipend out of his pocket.