Perhaps more like a road map then. Many possibilities but the course still has common pointers. I'm not terribly idealistic, however, so it's hard for me to say humanity can automatically reach a similar state of ethical or moral conversion with just enough time and history to stop making the same mistakes they always have.

Ah, I understand better now. You'd probably find my relationships with the mansion's members much lonelier, since we're all artists and keep a general distance. Your view is also much more liberal about -- overnights as you call it. At least more than most Earth, maybe on par with France.

[A grin, and if his fangs aren't sprouting now, maybe he's not in danger of it at all. Weird.] Because sodomy is illegal in England in my time, and men have a tendency to see someone like me as a threat and competition. They're much more likely to take such an offer as if it means something is wrong with them. Something they'd have to prove they'd deny, and with violence if necessary. Women on Earth use their societal status as cunning and less overtly aggressive -- testosterone levels you understand, to make a game out of claiming their power using seduction. A little bit of danger [Holds his fingers up a pinch.] not too much, only adds to that, heightens the adrenaline rush. In men, that adrenaline gets used for boxing. I don't mind, but I find it much less enjoyable to get punched than playfully pushed with a coy, [Falsetto voice:] "Oh you~!" and come hither eyes.

Most people haven't died yet. [Arthur...] It affords a certain perspective of the price of life that others don't think about in how they pay for it.