It was a skill set that Alcuin had, though it was also more complex than that... Oh, damn. He really was not going to have a better opening to confess to Vax about his past than this.

"Yes," he agreed. "Though, Vax... do you remember I told you that the religious doctrine of my people is 'love as thou wilt'? This takes many forms, but one component is the Servants of Naamah. In very simple terms, it is a religious order of courtesans." He had learned this word in one of he romance novels he had read, and determined that it had a better connotation than others. "That was my other role. So you can see how these things fit together."