Is that all you believe it to be?

[Gilgamesh sounds disappointed, but not for the reasons Adra might think. As always, he's gone and presumed the wrong thing—then again, that may have been one of their fundamental flaws in their relationship. For all they cared about one another, and supported one another, the inability to properly communicate prevailed.

Though he supposes some wires may have gotten crossed just now. He was a terrifying thing, when acting imperiously, in his own interests. But as he would often say, he was not without heart. It seemed as if Adra was waiting to hear something in particular from him, and if setting aside his ego was what it took...

Well, even the great tyrant can manage that.]

You are my treasure, my vassal, my companion. I would wish it so for those reasons, not because you are a warm body and a warm hole to lodge myself within. Perhaps it was the case once, but I have grown to adore you, and thus I would seek such a thing for mutual pleasure's sake. Besides...

[His eyes darken, slightly.]

You want more. And I would offer it to you, I am generous enough a King. Why deny what is freely given?