Sayer smiled and bowed humbly. "You are kind to say so, and I thank you for indulging my disquisition on furniture." He was a bit embarrassed for rambling, and while he received Laren's compliments with graciousness, he found himself remaining guarded around the halfling. He remembered his training from the royal court: Focus not on prose and praise, but on the motive it conveys. What was Laren trying to gain from him?
"Let us begin. Those three candles there: please bring them to the reading table and light them."
"Let us begin. Those three candles there: please bring them to the reading table and light them."