"Yeah, like, blood purism run in families I guess? So when I offered to talk to him without any witnesses he scoffed but then did show up. He's actually pretty nice, he's the one who told me- well, asked me about rubber ducks. Astoria was more flippant, but she didn't act disgusted by my very existence, and she thought Arens was a twat and I felt really really tempted to sow some discord there but I actually defended him! ...in a, you know, 'oh poor thing he doesn't know better' condescending kind of way but still it could have been much worse and I think I deserve a cookie for my self restraint!"