Audrey rubs the back of her head, then makes a little waving-away motion. "I think I'm good on my own for now."

"Whatever the lady says is fine with me."

"Alright, I'll give you two space. Audrey, I'll be at the bar upstairs if you need me, okay?"

Audrey nods. "Thank you." 

"De nada." And off she goes.

Gianno takes a sip of his coke and watches Hannah go as she climbs the stairs. 

"You have a good friend in her," he comments.

"Yeah, she's really taught me a lot."

"Forgive me if I'm overstepping, but was she your first?"

"... My second. And there were special circumstances with the first."

"I see. Did you know her from outside the bowers, or...?"

"No, I met her here. She's apparently a dimensional engineer, she puts in folded housing complexes and spends half her time in the Bowers."

"So you were practically a virgin before you came here?"

"I was a virgin! But that's been very much addressed by now."

"How many days has it been?"

"This is my third day."

"My. That's fast progress."

"Thank you."

"My first few days were pretty tumultuous too. I didn't expect to be popular. You expect - men like Luar - to get the majority, but it turns out that the women who don't like him generally like me, and vice versa. Suddenly I was spoiled for partners who would -" He takes another sip of his coke. "... appreciate my service. At first I was just happy to have sex, but after I was no longer starving..."

"... you started getting picky."

"Revolution of rising expectations."

Audrey nods, and leans back in her seat with a gulp of her spiked root beer.

"Are you getting picky yet?"

"I turned down a threesome this morning because I wasn't attracted to one of the participants."

"Oh my. That must have been hard for you."

"I had to really think about it, for sure. But the thing that broke it for me was, well - I could do the same thing with people I actually liked."