Gil should probably have used his wand for that, but Asar-Suti doesn't say so aloud, because he is touched and a bit shocked at the same time.

"I have been a pool of purple fire for aeons," he says. "And when I came here, human-shaped, and - failed at getting what I came for" - trying not to mention Lochiel's name twice in one conversation, Asar-Suti is perhaps just as unnerving for laboriously not-mentioning him - "I went on a binge, that is true. But I can live without poking myself into somebody, or being poked that way. It's much more important to me to kow that in whatever shape, you still love me, and want to be with me - you do, do you?"