Why did Ollie feel like he couldn't call himself a knight when so many people felt he'd already earned the title? It was something that had kept him awake long into the night more than once and recent events only made him more uncomfortable with the title that people seemed to use for him so easily.
"To everyone here," Ollie finally said after spending a minute gathering his thoughts. "Sir Thane is a knight because he is one of Lady Nyrielle's progeny. But that's not how Sir Thane became a knight at all. He was a knight even before he became a vampire."
"Sir Marcell wasn't a knight when he became a vampire," Georg pointed out, pausing to sniff the air before shaking his head.
