He looks away quickly, lips pressed together tightly. Azem - or rather, the Warriors - had, in fact, done something just like that, and he had assumed they simply wanted carnal fulfilment. So he understands very well.

"I apologise," he says, lips barely moving. "I have lived amongst the mortal races for so long that I must have adopted some of their...behaviours. But even so - an eternal bond? You would go that far...?"