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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3557631" data-attributes="member: 3448">“Good.  But there are some things I wanted to talk about with you.”“Yes, m’lord?” said Kit, with a hint of caution in voice.“Not with you as the Mouth.  Just with you, Kit.  I’d like to give you and Dame Brionna baronetcies, to reward you for your service.”“Thank you,” said Kit, a little surprised.“I’ll offer Mahler one as well, although I can’t imagine he’ll take it.  He hasn’t accepted any of the other titles we’ve offered him.”“Yeah.  Although he did agree to be Chancellor of the Exchequer,” noted Kit.“Yes, he accepted a position of responsibility.  But he’s turned down the knighthoods that we’ve offered.  If I thought he would accept it, I would have given him a barony for going through everything when he was being attacked by assassins who were really after me.  But he’s always refused.”“Yeah.  I wonder why…”“I have a theory.”“Oh?”“Well, we know he’s a master of disguise, right?  My theory is that he’s another incognito noble, like I was.”“Oh, so he won’t accept any titles that would actually be a step down.”“Right.  He either doesn’t want a knighthood because it’s beneath him as the son of a baron or whatever, or he figures that he left home to get away from that sort of thing and he doesn’t want to go back.  Or maybe he thinks that accepting a title from Canberry would be inconsistent with his oaths in his homeland.  It also explains why he was quick to suggest that I could just stay in disguise, back when we first learned my father had died.”“Right.  Hmm.  What country do you suppose he comes from?  I hope he isn’t loyal to one of our rivals or enemies.”“I think we would know if he were.  Besides, he could have gotten me killed any number of times.  He could even have claimed the bounty on me.  I’m sure we can trust him.”Kit nodded.  “I wasn’t really worried about him.  It’s just… it’s just my job to think about these sorts of things.”</blockquote>

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