Armand gets a few stubborn steps away before Daniel's words prompt him to stop, rather than stress-test the theory that Daniel would follow him anyway. Turns back to him, defensiveness maintaining, a certain guardedness.

The suggestion, implicit, that this offer is repentance, or punishment. I'm mad at you, but. Forces a moment to consider the motive. Does that match it? It sounds endemic to his behaviours. Isn't so sure, anyway.

"I want to," he corrects. Not gently. A neat little backhand at the notion that he is behaving in obligation. Some subservient performance. (This isn't that. Yes?) "It seems something that a maker would do for his fledgling."

If that maker were not Marius. Not Magnus. Not Armand, maybe, but look, here he is.