Benedict supposes he has two options here - be embarrassed or just go with it. But the fact is, he'd enjoyed it, and it's happened so why be precious about it now? And while his cheeks do turn a bit pink, he's turning his body to better face Silver.

"Though perhaps not in the ways my mother hopes I'd be."

He grins a little, taking another drag from his cigarette.

"Is it common, where you're from? For men to find such ... Entertainment with each other? You seemed to think so little of the notion, whereas it might ruin a man entirely here."