Royalty, huh. Maybe that was it? That weird, grating, off-putting feeling he'd gotten? But that'd have been extremely unfair to royals he'd met before – one in particular, at least. So that must not've been it.

The scrunched-up look he wore was safe for as long as he was marching in front, and that was a blessing for how unconscious he was of it. Not only the question of bad vibes, but of yet more names of people and places that didn't even tickle the faintest of memories; he'd been operating with the assumption something would, that he'd given himself enough credit in being well-learned about things.

Helluva lot of good that was turning out to be.

"None of that sounds familiar to me," he said at length. "Same as everything else around here."