The switch in language brought Krem closer to the words that Gannicus sometimes murmured to him, though the language was still largely unintelligible to Krem. It was relaxing, in a way. He set himself so that his legs boxed in on either side of Hild's.

"Just before I came here," Krem reported. He sighed and took another drink straight from the bottle. "Not very much. We got to that point in the discussion, of him telling me who he'd been with, and it all sort of...devolved."

He turned the bottle around and around in his hands. "I don't know why I'm so upset about it. I don't care if he fucks other people..."