1. So you seek to block my path, do you?
  2. Do you challenge me? If so, be warned—none can [cdb]hope to stand against me in a staring contest!
  3. ...
  4. Begin!
  5. Mrow? Rawr...
  6. You are a gracious loser to accept defeat so readily!
  7. Ahahaha!
  8. Ahem.
  9. I am hesitant even to ask, but what are you doing?
  10. Ah, if it isn't Lorenz. Spying on me, hmm?
  11. Well, if you must know, an insolent feline was [cdb]blocking my path and challenged me to a staring [cdb]contest.
  12. However, we determined the winner quite readily. Were you witness to my victory?
  13. Were you not once a noble?
  14. I was, yes—and still am so at heart.
  15. In the future you will see me as both the head of House Nuvelle and the world's finest mage!
  16. Then it seems I must adjust my perception of you.
  17. I always knew you to be a striking beauty who [cdb]possesses a keen talent for magic.
  18. I was even considering you as a candidate for [cdb]marriage, should you happen to reform your house.
  19. But now to find you competing with a house cat... Ah, I beg your pardon. Pray disregard my words.
  20. The gall required to consider a woman as a mate and [cdb]subsequently disqualify her in the following sentence [cdb]is staggering. Staggering, I tell you!
  21. You are a coarse, vulgar, indecent boor, and were I [cdb]ever under consideration for your hand in marriage, I hereby withdraw any and all possible interest!
  22. Also, you are the heir to House Gloucester, yes?
  23. Also, you are the head of House Gloucester, yes?
  24. Why would I ever hope to marry into a house of such [cdb]meager standing?
  25. How dare you! The magnificent House Gloucester is [cdb]anything but "meager"!
  26. I do dare and have done! And while I know not of [cdb]your status within Leicester...
  27. House Nuvelle is steeped in tradition, with a [cdb]bloodline closely guarded and unbroken.
  28. I find it hard to believe that joining your house is [cdb]worth uprooting that.
  29. Well, now. I can hardly back down from words such [cdb]as those.
  30. We of Gloucester are legitimate descendants of one of [cdb]the Ten Elites and inheritors of a Hero's Relic!
  31. Long have we held a seat at the Alliance roundtable! Why, we are among the most distinguished houses in [cdb]the whole of Leicester!
  32. We are no less valuable than House Nuvelle—who, [cdb]may I add, were condemned to extinction by the [cdb]previous emperor.
  33. Ahahaha! It seems our allegations are doomed to [cdb]never reach a point of agreement!
  34. Then I suppose we have no choice but to compete [cdb]that we may determine which of us is superior.
  35. But as our previous match of martial prowess ended [cdb]with no clear winner, perhaps we should find a [cdb]different way to settle this.
  36. Choose whatever battlefield you wish, Lorenz. I shall ever be the agent of your doom!