"Truth: ...Did you ever love Danarius at one point?"
"I swear, Mage, if I was not compelled to answer truthfully right now…"
The muscle in his jaw tightens, and his nostrils flare slightly as he exhales through his nose. “What is your obsession with my time with Danarius? It is… true; I had some… twisted sort of loyalty to him. You might even, perhaps, have called it love. Not the type shared between lovers, but it is not surprising that I might have felt that way - he was all that I knew. He was my first memory and the man with whom I spent my every day. I was created to serve his every whim - he was… my family, my only friend, and my god, all in one.
"… I do not need to look up to know how you are looking at me right now. I know now how twisted it was - but you cannot pretend that you might not have ended up doing the same, had you been in my situation. I am, for all of my attempts to pretend otherwise, still just a man."