For as often as he head his name repeatedly back to him in either shrill or disparaging tones, Stewart had to let out a soft breath with the smirk that accompanied how Liliana offered it him just now.

"And I've found," he said, a little of that showmanship working into the tilt of his head, a presenting sweep of his arm, "that those who truly appreciate the performative pomp of charactertic circumstance even rarer still.

"So tell me .What... perchance...will you be teaching, that you find will be relevant to my current academic pursuits....Liliana?"

Hers was a name that just rolled so nicely off a tongue. Wasn't it?