Fair enough. It sounded like something he could go for himself for the time being, so he nodded. "Tea it is, then, with the trimmings. You just come with me and sit yourself in a chair and I'll make us some."

One hand out, he would guide the boy over to a seat once he had the young Earl's hand in his and set about getting the makings for their snack. He thought about the cookies in his cabinet and took those down too. Might as well. Children rarely turned down sweets. He missed his teapot back home, but he had been able to find something that worked just as well to heat the water. While that was heating, he moved to the next room over where his bunk and a desk sat that he had been permitted - and how many before him, he didn't know - to use. He kept a roll of first aid materials within one of its drawers out of habit, and from that he took a roll of gauze. "There we are. This'll do for an eyepatch for you until we can find something more suitable."