I suppose I'll have to find out how serious they are.

[ It's not the kind of thing he can look forward to, but Rhys knows he'll be feeling the edge he's living on until he finds out if they're serious or not.

It doesn't seem impossible to him that people would simply use the excuse that the city would make them do it in order to engage in sin. ]

And if the lengths I'll go to are more than theirs. I won't assume they're more stubborn.