[He ends up slinging the cape over his left arm, holding it like that for now. Maybe he can still fix it later, but he's not sure how to do it without visible stitches. Egh...]

Mm-hmm. See, here's the problem with that. I'm not a knight, nor anything like that. There needn't be any more fights in my near future. [He has not been told about some Trials involving combat.]