[The comment gets a small chuckle out of Martin regardless of intent, but he gives Roland a quick look up and down in case he wasn't joking.]

Oh, I'm- yeah, I'd be happy to. [And he is, genuinely, he's just a little startled by the polite request at all. He pats the book against his chest.] Mostly I've been doing research into the, um. The folklore of the region. Usually stuff like that tells you a lot more about what a place finds, uh-- I suppose necessary to teach their kids. Lots of stories about being a proper working member of the community, listening to the Old Gods, that sort of thing. A-as well as your, um. Usual sort of cautionary stories,.