Perhaps. [Not at all. He had found in many years that all knowledge had its value, all trivia had its place, often in the most unexpected ways. But for Oz to neglect a detail he'd already revealed, their first meeting no less... The unlovable brat was hardly off his game, as much as...]

What Oz Vessalius neglects to mention may be so commonplace as stones in the ground. [He closes his fan and sets it in his lap.] But what he doth not wish to say? That hath value to mine ear.