[D'Artagnan may not have the same skill for reading people, and he's often incorrect with his assumptions as frequent mistakes from trusting the wrong people would attest to. He notes solely to himself the muted tired aspect under the man's weighty stare. D'Artagnan lifts a judgmental eyebrow, upper lip twisting just slightly in offense, but his tone is flat and only bears the smallest hint of peevish irritation.]
I was perfectly clean before.
[As the words leave his mouth, he hears the childish retort in them and presses his lips together, refusing to allow himself another remark in that vein, stupid and pointless in his sudden anxious apprehension for this. He follows Wash in silence, taking measure of the room, the space small but serviceable, he presumes, and he feels it a better environment for himself personally, than one might find in a room expressly for the purpose of their lessons. D'Artagnan has been in the Stark Naked playrooms, and he need not think of that incident whilst attempting to absorb all the information he can here. This is an instruction, and he will view it as such, no matter what comes about. Laid out before them, he need examine the carrying case and its contents, fingers sliding over the ropes, determinedly at first, and then more hesitantly, until he retracts his hand and looks away, focused on Wash instead.]
no subject
I was perfectly clean before.
[As the words leave his mouth, he hears the childish retort in them and presses his lips together, refusing to allow himself another remark in that vein, stupid and pointless in his sudden anxious apprehension for this. He follows Wash in silence, taking measure of the room, the space small but serviceable, he presumes, and he feels it a better environment for himself personally, than one might find in a room expressly for the purpose of their lessons. D'Artagnan has been in the Stark Naked playrooms, and he need not think of that incident whilst attempting to absorb all the information he can here. This is an instruction, and he will view it as such, no matter what comes about. Laid out before them, he need examine the carrying case and its contents, fingers sliding over the ropes, determinedly at first, and then more hesitantly, until he retracts his hand and looks away, focused on Wash instead.]
How are we to begin?