"Bad, yes, Of course." [Flug smirks, yes, this is his Black Hat. Flug hadn't known how it was possible to miss someone when they had technically still been around but it was getting hard to argue that the empty husk of his demon employer didn't bare a closer resemblance than the man who weeped at kittens. There certainly is a lot of hat in the arachne's face, he tries to shift his own head to accomodate and still see.]

"I didn't take you for someone who would even know much about marital tradition-- N-no offense. Just learning a ritual where you're technically sanctified under someone else, I wouldn't think you would have bothered."

[Not that he WANTS you to propose.]

"Makes me wonder if anyone actually did." [That's at least a bit of harmless schadenfreude they can snicker at.]