[ ...oh no that's a terrible response, lapis, that's a terrible response---!!!! He's now got almost a full idea to how long she'd been watching and part of him kind of wants to roll over and die about it.

He'll take a deep breath and just... pretend it's fine it's fine he totally hasn't been making a fool of himself and a mess of his boots in the midnight bog. ]

...I seriously didn't think it'd be this hard. I've gotten two of the things already, but this one just... doesn't want to be caught. At all. Can you believe my luck...

[ ...or you know. complete lack thereof. Nevermind he takes it back. ]

A, anyway. This one is pretty much decided it wants to clown on me.
...So how about we work on clowning it back.