Inclined to treat everything as a good sign, whether or not he should, Courfeyrac salutes again and returns to his horse. The creature blinks innocently at him, but Rene will no longer be so easily led astray. “I will be watching you, Paladin,” he informs the old stallion solemnly, though Paladin seems not at all impressed. “Marius, give me a hand, my dear fellow. Violet has requested no more rolling in the mud, and I would not want to disappoint her.”

From time to time, Courfeyrac does learn from his mistakes.