"Oh, I've heard plenty of idiocy in my years. I didn't expect it to be here, no. Humans.. Well, beings in general have different ideas of what fae are like. If all someone knows is the sanitized version, or if someone's been raised differently; then I can see why 'pretend they're here' is considered harmless. But from where I am as a member of their actual court, it just caught me off guard. It isn't harmless, and I didn't like the attempts at goading."

A small sip of mead was had. "It's only because Webby is a child that I managed to catch myself before either of those feelings could take over. I doubt it would have gone well if that had happened. I like playing with emotions as much as the next trickster, but there's a limit to it."

So it had been the mix of having it thrown at him along with just not expecting either of those emotional responses to kick in just at the idea of either Oberon or Titania actually being around. Or having to think about them outside of a vague awareness that they were probably still in Avalon going through their marital disputes and other dramas.

"I told her I didn't want to pretend they were there, and she just ignored that in hopes that I'd do what she wanted anyway. Where's the fun in that?" Puck asked with a huff.