Completely forgotten? More like it hadn't even occurred to him. At the last moment Warsman had stopped himself from shaking his own head, but even so it wouldn't have been a fond gesture; sometimes it seemed that the cleverer the speaker, the more detached from the rest of the world they could sometimes be, as though their minds were too occupied with their own brilliance to take account of any of those silly, unnecessary things like clarity or simplicity.

"It is tricky, yes," he agreed warmly. He didn't have the heart to tease him. "I think I understand. Purely ornamental, though..." For a moment his mask's expression was clouded with a faint disapproval. He couldn't fathom having not only the money but the space to put up a building with the sole purpose of looking nice- and not even close to the house, if his memory of the grounds served him well.

On a sudden note of inspiration, he tilted his head. "Is it that shape to the north? I've seen glimpses of it out of the upstairs windows, but it's been very cloudy lately."