[And hey, they have names. Fancy, foreign ones. See, Archie can handle Kurt. At least Kurt is human-shaped. He could handle talking to Robert in this form because Robert was human deep down. But after six months of seeing these guys, here and there, he's still not sure what to say to them. Do they have interests? They don't wear clothes, so how civilized is their society? The wonderful 18th-century British thinking that would make him sound like a colossal jerk if spoken out loud is actually little more than a way to determine what is proper around this creature. But all comes out is the following:]
[voice, same filter]
That's...very lovely, yes.