"What? When did I say it was looks alone." Elijah smiled slightly, though he liked the look on Zech's face and could get used to seeing it. "You are an intelligent and cultured man. But also you're someone I've known, even if not well, I have some concept of your personality. It is just different when it is written words... you aren't just a siren calling to me with beautiful promises. You're an Eros in human flesh." He suddenly looked very shy. "Or even better... Anteros."

Crane was trying to keep his mind on purer more unassuming thoughts but he felt that the handsome man before him was speaking on this on purpose and it made Elijah squirm. He wasn't upset, but it made him nervous but somehow also thrilled to try to speak of it. Was he discovering something about himself?

"Ah.. i mean it depends on the person. Usually the closer you are to the church or the deeper you feel in the religion, the harsher you are on yourself. I mean just having wandering thoughts about ..um.." His hand trembled as he sipped his glass. "Intimate things. Or even more so if a man were to..ah.." he struggled for the way to word it. "Become intimate with himself. Those could be enough. Sometimes more malicious things but those are things easier to avoid since it requires such an intent. Having a desire is so much harder to avoid being tempted, I find." He found himself having trouble meeting his eyes as he spoke about something that was so hard to talk about and made his cheeks burn.