“Your proclivities offend them?” “Often. Though I do much enjoy offending,” he says wryly. “So, you could say I invite their disregard.” “I’d much rather have their disregard than their favour if something so trivial should signify.” “Oh, I relish their disregard, love. It’s why I make a point of doing away with clothes altogether on the solstice. I dangle my dangles all through the Mecca just to see how close I might come to the palace before the guards are called.”
