It happens a few times before he stops, because Istredd overthinks everything, but Lucifer is very good at curbing it, at least at the moment. At least he doesn't have to think 1-2-3 in his head like when he was young. "Stop it," he says after a mental prod, but he's smiling. "Before I came to Thorne it'd been sixty years since my training!"

He was very out of practice and then he barely agreed to dance since getting here, until once with Yennefer, and now this.

Oh, a bard. Istredd isn't certain there are any bards with that kind of following, but they certainly can be very successful and be paid as a royal bard in courts if they were good enough. So you were in an extroverted attention-seeking vessel. Seems a bit on the nose. He's teasing.