...oh, uh.

[ Alex ducks his head, kind of looking away. ]

I mean... I did. But... I was also...still getting used to...you know. Her Feathery Royalness, and...it’s sort of...something I’m used to. That ominous...feeling.

[ Something watching him, seeing into him, ready to kill him, there and in control of his every movement— ]

So I thought it was...normal.