[The noise that gets out of him is soft but noncommittal.]
That's something we've had difficulties with since the beginning. We were...fussed at, for lack of a better phrase, by the Regent shortly after our arrival. For difficulties like that.
[Though he is, in hindsight, not entirely certain what the Regent thought was going to happen after a couple of weeks of starvation and suffering. It isn't enough to make him question the Regent's displeasure, exactly, because the whole thing was a shitshow; besides, his own admonishment had been exceptionally light. But there's still a vague sense of "I don't know what you expected" around the whole thing.]
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That's something we've had difficulties with since the beginning. We were...fussed at, for lack of a better phrase, by the Regent shortly after our arrival. For difficulties like that.
[Though he is, in hindsight, not entirely certain what the Regent thought was going to happen after a couple of weeks of starvation and suffering. It isn't enough to make him question the Regent's displeasure, exactly, because the whole thing was a shitshow; besides, his own admonishment had been exceptionally light. But there's still a vague sense of "I don't know what you expected" around the whole thing.]