"Nothing that's troubled us at the Manor, miss," Xavier stated, his gratitude for moving on to another topic swept aside by the attention he needed to pay to his words now.
We've taken over their country and put the gifted ones on Faidoux, some pushback's only to be expected, was something he could and did think, but not something he could say. That would be even more of a faux pas than discussing his lovers. There was nothing worse than a servant with political views, or so they said in Belailles.
"And I don't think it will reach us there," he went on, in case Miss Viola was afraid it might. "The Manor employs a great many Aurellians, and they seem happy enough there." He left it unsaid that it wasn't quite as rosy, to say the least, at Belmont Manor.