Angry - not at you, exactly, although I hope you realize at some point we're going to have a very long conversation about this deal you made with a demon.

[He's still frustrated about that, but in a fond way and not an "actually, I want to strangle you" way. Eventually Damen wants to hear that whole saga, though, because it seems Important to Laurent and therefore it's Important to him.]

Now I just feel like maybe you've decided to start communicating only in Vaskian. It can't be Veretian - we both know I speak that adequately. The beginning, Laurent: where are we?