"Ah-- nearly, I think. Or perhaps nearly right. You have his manner about you when you speak it."
That is not exactly what he means, but it is difficult to explain the matter of names and true names and names from one's own lips. At least, it's difficult to explain it to mortals.
Though to be fair, this is the first time Puck has tried in quite a long while.
"Puck," he tries, and the timber of his voice is neither Havelock's nor Hellebore's, but there is something in the way the syllable falls that, in some way, does seem to recall them both.
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Date: 2011-07-27 12:46 am (UTC)"Ah-- nearly, I think. Or perhaps nearly right. You have his manner about you when you speak it."
That is not exactly what he means, but it is difficult to explain the matter of names and true names and names from one's own lips. At least, it's difficult to explain it to mortals.
Though to be fair, this is the first time Puck has tried in quite a long while.
"Puck," he tries, and the timber of his voice is neither Havelock's nor Hellebore's, but there is something in the way the syllable falls that, in some way, does seem to recall them both.