[That's a very deliberate I and not we. He's not stupid. If one of them is going to end up in trouble, it's absolutely him. Vere is a land where rules matter. How you behave matters. In Akielos, honor matters more than the minutiae of how you behave and he sees no honor in jailing people for every little trespass.]
Do you think they would approve of what we might do in this room?
[There are places, he knows, that are less forgiving of relationships between men. Even in Akielos there's a certain hierarchy to it. Damen could sleep with any woman he chose, but it would be rather less acceptable to sleep with Nikandros, who was effectively of too high a status and too close in age for a relationship to be appropriate. In that sense, it was fortunate for him to like the same things regardless of gender. It would be much more of a problem if he preferred his men built like Nikandros.]
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[That's a very deliberate I and not we. He's not stupid. If one of them is going to end up in trouble, it's absolutely him. Vere is a land where rules matter. How you behave matters. In Akielos, honor matters more than the minutiae of how you behave and he sees no honor in jailing people for every little trespass.]
Do you think they would approve of what we might do in this room?
[There are places, he knows, that are less forgiving of relationships between men. Even in Akielos there's a certain hierarchy to it. Damen could sleep with any woman he chose, but it would be rather less acceptable to sleep with Nikandros, who was effectively of too high a status and too close in age for a relationship to be appropriate. In that sense, it was fortunate for him to like the same things regardless of gender. It would be much more of a problem if he preferred his men built like Nikandros.]