Wysteria scoffs and Richard sighs in tight aside to himself, thoroughly Tried.

“Please don’t use my name.”

Which might as well be real, so far as this plane is concerned. This will all be fine, Miss Poppell is ‘the very picture of discretion.’

“I will requisition paper,” he adds, because he might as well have a fallback explanation that will require other people to assist in covering for him if the seneschal becomes suspicious of his crimes. “For recordkeeping.” Not for a giant ant.