"He is, though! He was brave enough to ask me to be his matesprit even when he was really afraid I'd say no, and he's confident in his own way too! People just can't always see it," she insists. "Last curse he might have been full of the normal kind of confidence, so that he wasn't too worried to talk about things like the time we pailed, but even without that he still has his own kind of confidence!"

Give it a second until she realizes what she just said. Yep, there it is. The look of horror.