`` i call that handsome , '' requiescat said , admiring the bright green knot upon his shoulder from every direction , craning his head nearly upside down , and even majestatis did not quite manage to affect his usual degree of amused disdain and kept glancing back sidelong at his own : it was in red , to go against his cream-and-black , and looked almost as fine , temeraire thought , as his own pale blue matched set : he of course had needed two .