‘How about him, then?’ She nodded at Horst. ‘Are you and he lovers?’ Even Cabal was taken aback by this. ‘Hardly, madam. That’s my brother.’ The creature looked at Cabal for some seconds as if expecting further clarification. ‘And?’ she said when it was not forthcoming. ‘I draw the line at incest, quite putting the vexed subject of homosexuality to one side.’
