"Even if you wanted to use the old court, you would need twelve practicing magicians for it, and what did we have? Two! And it's not as if anyone would ever let him be in charge of any court all on his own. It's not as though he's the king of bloody magician—"

And then someone rudely shoves a hand in his face like that. Now that's something that's never happened before and even as he is now, he'll jerk back and smack the offending hand away before giving Lambert such an offended look.

"What? That doesn't even make sense."