"Oh, okay. That makes sense. --I love Sasha, he's very good."

"He's excellent," Marlo agrees, and cuddles his boyfriend. 

"I am glad Sasha has two people who can appreciate how excellent he is. He should have ten."

"That's adorable but I am not at all sure I can handle having ten boyfriends." 

"Okay, then, four."

"Four is a much more manageable number!" 

"You have Good and Law, now you just need Chaos and Evil."

"I'm almost one hundred percent sure that's not how the alignment chart works." 

"What's an alignment chart?"

"Dungeons and Dragons thing. The axes are good versus evil and lawful versus chaotic, it's usually drawn as a chart with nine squares, like so —" 

"Five of those boxes aren't real and four of them are how extraplanar entities work."

"It's generally used as a way to describe personal philosophies rather than a way to describe physical reality. Extraplanar entity?" 

"Angels and demons and fairies and djinn. Angels are good, demons are evil, fairies are law, and djinn are chaos."

"Huh," but he can't think of any more specific questions. 

"Some nonhuman species have-- alignments?-- too. Vampires are evil, unicorns are good. But lots of them are like humans and can be more than one."

Hearing himself described as unable to be anything but good is deeply, deeply weird, in a way that he's not sure he can articulate even to Sasha. 

"But it's different for Earth species. Like, demons actively pursue evil, and vampires often... devote themselves to poetry or spending fifty years making bonsai trees or something, and just incidentally don't mind murdering people when it seems like a good idea."

"Yeah. That makes sense." 

Speaking of extra-planar entities, everyone's favorite extra-planar entity has come into class, followed by a red-faced sobbing girl.

...is there any way to get the girl's attention without getting the attention of Sasha's least favorite extraplanar entity? 

She sits in an empty desk in front of Sasha and puts her head on the desk.

Lilith sits conspicuously far away from her.

Sasha waits until they're handing papers forward and then hands her a note that says Are you okay? 

She looks at the note and bursts into tears.

He doesn't try doing that again but he makes a note to keep an eye on her. 

After class she goes up to Sasha and hugs him.