[Oh. Oh that's a tough one. Hythlodaeus squints, trying to remember anything.]

Embarrassing on my side?.. Goodness, I do not even know what it could be. He has ever lost to me in our games...

Oh, mayhaps one of the first times I tried to confess to him? He... did not seem to notice the first time I ever did it, interpeting my words as a mere turn of phrase, so I tried to approach it differently next time. I tried to draw upon poetry and records of the debates held between scholars of eld who were considered to be, ah, particularly close... But he only got annoyed with me and scolded me for misattributing a quote in my nervousness and drawing illogical parallels! [Hythlo laughs as he pours himself a drink anyway, though he doesn't down it yet.] Needless to say, that was not what I had intended.