It isn't a fetish, it's a preference! For Iskandar. And only Iskandar. Sometimes you just love one person. At least that would be the protest.

The whole conversation feels like a fair trade for the earlier consultation in which Lord El-Melloi II relayed all of his own issues and anxieties with relation to Chaldea. It felt...not nice, exactly, but it brought some things to the front that felt like the playing feel was now far more even.

"I'll be honest, that sounds like a chicken-and-egg way of thinking of a wish. However you reached the conclusion and the decision to go with it, you did."

Absent all of this is the question of who Roman had been before he was the doctor that sat across from him. "And...okay, maybe you're close to who you might've been if your path had gone a different way, absent your current clothing and certain interests." Israel did not have internet idols in Solomon's time. That was a cold hard fact. "The only worthwhile thing is to ask if you are generally okay with being that person.

Lord El-Melloi II waved off the apology. "I've wrangled worse. Like I've said before, I ended up enjoying that day."