She sat down on his other side, with a smirk. "You can't brush me off that easily, you know." She said leaning her head against her hand. "Even if you still have that superbity thing going for you. I suppose nobles can't just turn that off."
Kolt rolled his eyes. "No, I was born with that."
"I would have thought your time as a horse would have lessened it a degree."
He grimaced at her. "And you were doing so well at being less annoying then everyone else." Of course the whole camp knew he'd been a horse. Didn't mean they needed to bring it up every conversation though.
"So did it lessen it."
"It taught me demanding things is pointless."
"Is that why you haven't demanded I leave."
"Would you listen if I did?"
"No?"
Kolt nodded, finishing his soup. "So why waste my breath? I already did that before." And he'd need to conserve strength if Yorvet kept up his training regimen.
Superbity -haughtiness, arrogance
Added Info - "Superbity" must be related to "superb," right? Right--but the two words imply very different attitudes toward excellence. "Superbity" gives grandeur a negative spin, conveying a sense of annoying self-satisfaction. "Superb," on the other hand, it quite positive, suggesting that something is of the finest quality and represents the highest degree of perfection or competence. Together, the two terms give a fine overview of the meaning of their common parent, the Latin root superbus, which can mean "excellent," "proud," or "haughty."
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