Things are more...complicated in my country. For example, depending on your class, people do not have children, they breed traits. I am an example of that, unfortunately not the perfect example given my druthers. [Take that as you will.] Typically you're arranged to be married to a person you'll dutifully spend the rest of your life with living in luxurious despair, distill more of those highly sought after traits into your own offspring, and brace yourself to follow in the footsteps of your parents. If you're involved in anything else on the side it's hidden, accepted as something physical, but taken no further. Hoping for more than this? Foolish. So no, there is not much in the way of courting in the Imperium...though once in a while people do get lucky.

[Once in a very long while. Sadly, Dorian wasn't that lucky, but he sipped his drink and kept his expression surprisingly neutral regardless of his feelings about the subject on the inside. Those were...complicated things as well.]

Marvelous! [Dorian bumped Leonard's arm with his own, perhaps he could encourage the quirk of his lips into a full-blown smirk.] If it means I get to have the singular pleasure of your company then I would be a fool not to take advantage of any opportunity.

[It would be completely and strictly professional, of course.]

I am rather discerning and I do happen to like living. [The gruff response only draws a chuckle from Dorian who happens to like that sort of thing. He'll gladly give his life for a worthy enough cause, but he will not do so wastefully making him more cautious than those around him.]

Mmm...yes! That hole in the sky has created several Rifts in my world, these Rifts happen to spew demons who are, for the most part, tethered to these Rifts...for how long, I do not know.