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Who tells someone to join them for a meal and sends a collar to wear?

[The writing is pressed down hard, and for those who knows their writing can see? This writer is ticked off.

Seriously.

Put that person in a bucket and send them out to sea.]

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Something small would suffice?

That would depend upon his mood at the time, and his mood after; he won't necessarily say if he's decided to be "gracious" or is simply biding his time to hold it over your head later.

If you're unlucky immediately and your payment is not equal in value, he will take it right then as a reason to fish for what else he might be able to get from you right then - or as an excuse to try to force you into some form of service for your inability to pay.

If you're otherwise unlucky he may wait to call in your "debts owed".

Really, the safest is likely to attend and return it to him as something you couldn't possibly accept. Be as polite as possible but do not let him push you into taking it.

Thank you. I don't think I could possibly accept something so expensive. But what about the meal?

Touching nothing, even if not hungry, would be the height of rudeness, wouldn't it? Wouldn't that be also a "debt"?

Yes, he has claimed debts for food and such before. He is that petty and prone to scheming for anything he can get. You could always try claiming you do not wish to impose upon his hospitality any more than is necessary or some other dodge of that sort.

Does your world have any tradition of fairy stories?

Some; there are various fairy tales in different parts of the world.

But I've heard something about the fae and not eating food in their realm?

Then I take it your stories have them just as sometimes capricious and occasionally dangerously manipulative and prone to their own rules as ours? Those are not a bad general idea of what level of caution is needed here.

The food itself does not have power attached to it in any meaningful amounts normally, although I confess I do not know as much as I would like about his powers to know if he COULD or not. It doesn't exactly matter since eating food besides the servant's gruel and what you can afford to buy is something he can use as a debt, asking extra to "pay for" what you've eaten that he offered.

Yes, we do.

So it seems that with this meal, especially if there is wine or anything expensive on the plate, the whole exercise could be used as a trap.

I would ask if there are mind altering substances that could be mixed in the drinks or the food, but I'm afraid that would be going straight into paranoia.

Essentially, yes. And with him, there is very little he's above; paranoia is not a flaw towards a man like that.

Oh, wonderful. This is going to be a long, long meal.

Especially with the difference in time perceptions. The one I lost my eyes at lasted several days by our reckoning. This one may be the same.

[He's not going to comment on how he knows that. But he does trust that Walter came to check up on him as soon as it was possible, ergo...]

Even better. We might nit have a choice but to drink something at least.

[Is she grumpy? Yes she is. She hates being cornered.]

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