[ Tennal has run through their status in this city and class, and he's pretty sure he can rule out neuromodification and military division affiliation as being too specific to Orshan society to guess at any equivalent wherever Bob is from.

Bob had mentioned there not being freedom to have sex with men but other than that being bullshit, Tennal has no idea how to use it, or really think of it as usable. ]

I suppose you would look for that in others, to try to get someone else's spark to reflect on you. It must come from knowing that you couldn't keep up without some kind of assistance.

[ This is...probably not helping. ]

You must take after your gen-parent that way.

[ Because insulting someone's parentage does have a way of escalating things. Usually. ]