He smiles down at Lily as Faolan gestures to her, fondly ruffling her ears and scritching behind them.

"I'll technically be on duty while there. In fact, if you win I will technically be guarding you -- and I suppose you won't be able to be a guardian any more. Unless they decide to make you guard yourself along with everyone else."

Lancelot flicks his eyes up and twitches an amused smile, shrugs after a moment.

"The contract didn't seem to take that into account when I looked through it, but I don't think they wrote it with someone like you in mind."