Teddybear

"That is hardly relevant."

"Yes, unfortunately, your master made that mistake."

"You are not a person, creature. You should not exist."

Kivvien just shook his head.

"They're accurate descriptions of you."

"I have no need to use it."

Kivvien huffed a laugh. "He didn't give it to you, he simply placated you by allowing you to get one for yourself."

He steered the cart to the right. "I am quite shocked a thing like you was given a name to start with."

Kivvien steered the cart around a bend and they were once again at a fork. "Creature," Kivvien gestured to the road.

Kivvien returned his focus to the road. His mind tried to wander back to the palace, his lab- He stopped it. There was no use in that. Not until this ...

Kivvien scowled. "Cover yourself."

"Not likely. If he has been stripped of an award I doubt they'd allow him to display it in his home."

"Perhaps, but such a display will likely have been removed when he was exiled from the college."

"I rarely collaborated with other scholars or engaged in matters of court, there is no reason I should know of him."

Kivvien sighed. How had he fallen so far so quickly?