"That," Steven says with a sigh, "is up to you to decide. I am not going to advise you whether or not you want to be a homewrecker, Hythlo, even if it's against the man who technically homewrecked you."

He pets Banania's head as he sips his coffee.

"Dirk," Steven says, "has... a lot of stupid opinions about sexual positions and what they say about you. He doesn't believe in switches and seems to think that being submissive and being fucked are the same thing. So I'm sure he's under the mistaken impression that sucking cock is an inherently submissive act."

He snorts. "Well. I'm sure you could disabuse him of that notion if you ever got your mouth on him. If I didn't have a jealous fiance and if Dirk wasn't... basically like a weird little brother to me at this point, I could disabuse him of it--if you can't control a man while you're deep-throating him, you're not doing it right."

He takes another sip and shakes his head. "Dirk's problem--if you'll allow me to put in terms that might be more familiar to you Amaurotines, given how Ancient Greek you all seem to be--is that he wants to jump straight to being the erastes without ever doing time as an eromenos."