As for the rest: “There isn’t any here that isn’t for the goddess Kora, I think. But perhaps I can ask Degas for the rest of the evening off; we’ll go and fetch some from the store, and return to my house or yours to sit down and talk in private? I don’t keep any in my house as a matter of… restraint.”
Which, given that he had no problems drinking in itself on the ship, she would understand is less about the Catholicism and more about potential bad habits.
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“Nyx. How elegant. I like it.”
As for the rest: “There isn’t any here that isn’t for the goddess Kora, I think. But perhaps I can ask Degas for the rest of the evening off; we’ll go and fetch some from the store, and return to my house or yours to sit down and talk in private? I don’t keep any in my house as a matter of… restraint.”
Which, given that he had no problems drinking in itself on the ship, she would understand is less about the Catholicism and more about potential bad habits.