[ Back home, affection was not widely shown in public. It was all or nothing. When a woman declared that she might like to kiss him, she wanted to go somewhere private and do more than kiss. In certain environments (like not on the Network), he would have not batted an eye, but this is unexpected and gives him pause. He's never been propositioned by letter.

[ Meanwhile, D'Angeline sex culture seems simple enough to grasp. It sounds, to him, a little like the privilege of having a harem, which could contain a variety of people, was extended to the wife, and that both wife and husband have trysts without the commitment of marriage. ]

I understand. Perhaps we will meet and speak of this when Alcuin is himself.

[ If only to stop Thorne from divulging more of both their sex lives. This was more information than he needed. ]