It was shocking- even in Terre d'Ange, a decadent land by many accounts (including the Cassiline Brotherhood's), the maxim was 'love as thou wilt'. To attempt intimacy with someone unwilling, to force them into anything, was considered blasphemy. Some might laugh at the Cassilines for their oaths of chastity, but no one would force them to break them.

Ariel's tampering had Joscelin primed to react somewhat differently than would be normal too- he gasped, the sudden stimulation having James's desired effect for a moment as he jerked into the contact before he regained control of himself, one of his fists driving up into the pit of the smaller man's stomach. "You could not possibly. Don't think I will hesitate to hurt you."