I cannot say I know what that is like. [she had long lost her family to the snows that descended in the wake of the Calamity.] Not for many years. But given the nature of this establishment, I am sure there are many who can think of the advantage one might have for things one might do in the dark.

[ Surely such things must have occurred to him upon entry? He does not seem quite so old on second glance, though the pale hair adds years that hers does not; he is perhaps around her age or there abouts, four and twenty summers, if her reading of Hume aging is correct.

For her part, she's not exactly scandalised; those lower born weren't quite so hung up on purity of the womenfolk as the noble houses, though Halone forbid you be caught getting up to anything so illicit!

But there's a shamelessness in this city that reminds her of the darkness that lingers in these streets, and his comment gets a sympathetic nod. ]

Aye. For my part, I did not expect their candid induction of life here to prove so true.