[It doesn't cow Molly to hear that- merely shifts his assumptions another ten degrees to the left as he forms a less irritating (against his wishes because Percy by his general nature grates on him in the same way Beau does) perception of him.

Like Beau, he will not give him an inch, assuming he'll take a mile right back and call it a victory over him.]

I never would have guessed. You must love this, then. Not... this, specifically, but what the witch is doing. That's all she's claiming she's about, after all.

[Molly, himself, has mixed feelings, but he's sort of curious what a champion of the people thinks of the diplomatic and otherwise missions Atoria sends them on.]