It didn't take Nita immediately by surprise - even being the lone wizard in an are couldn't preclude anyone else from knowing the Speech.

She could hit herself for missing anything about this picture later; she had other things on her mind.

"Better for both of us that way," she agreed. As they walked, she nodded... then snorted.

"Probably wants to avoid questions of legitimacy, but that's not a fair plan. Acting confident is one thing; pretending to know everything is another."

Because sometimes you had to fake it til you made it... but it could still come back to bite you.

"I hear the part about them not making sense, though."