That was the first comment of Alcuin's that had just kind of slipped out instead of being calculated. He was lucky it hadn't offended Aaron.

"Ah. Well, honestly... sometimes. But not very often." Alcuin rubbed the back of his neck as they walked and said, "If you want to know what really makes you special, it's that there doesn't feel like an edge of danger to this like there typically would be. Not going home with strangers tends to be a pretty important safety thing."

He said this in part because he wondered if Aaron's thoughts would betray how dangerous he actually was.