Hearing that Emily had been through this same talk before was a bit of a relief to the boggled young crescent- establishing enough clarity that, provided with her other hints, he thought he could piece the answer together.
"Renown?..." It was true Nathaniel's instruction had been incredibly single-minded. His interest in spirits, and a craving for knowledge, having combined with a knack for learning rites, had skewed his direction almost entirely towards Wisdom. "I suppose Wisdom alone isn't... Um..." Nathaniel hadn't felt he'd done anything deserving of other renown. Granted, it wasn't as if those opportunities fell out of the sky.
A slight wrinkle of his nose as the smell of cigarette smoke started to become overpowering. Work at the garage had helped with that somewhat.