Alcuin spoke of it as if those things - love, sex, religion, courtesans, and spying - all went together quite naturally. And if that was the sort of world from which he came, that made sense.

Vax'ildan came from a very different world. Even if they had both of them been from Exandria, or the other way round, they still would have led very different lives. His expression, even before he'd made words to respond, suggested that he didn't actually see how they quite fit together at all. "I... When you say 'courtesan,' do you mean... Like with how you tried to thank me before?"