[He wasn't supposed to volunteer to read something she was interested in. It was supposed to be... not an inconvenience to him, that was the whole point in having it be just the thing he was going to be reading already...]
I am not the scholar.
[So she tries to put the responsibility of the choice back on him, even though she... probably could come up with something. It wasn't like she was stupid, just... illiterate, and without ever having had the luxury of time to do things like learn beyond the scope of archery and hunt and servitude. She was surely interested in... She could surely think of...]
- And you will not be calling them "bedtime stories".
no subject
I am not the scholar.
[So she tries to put the responsibility of the choice back on him, even though she... probably could come up with something. It wasn't like she was stupid, just... illiterate, and without ever having had the luxury of time to do things like learn beyond the scope of archery and hunt and servitude. She was surely interested in... She could surely think of...]
- And you will not be calling them "bedtime stories".
[For obvious "not a filly" reasons.]