"Why do you do this?" He had asked once. He glared up over Alfador, who sad silently in his lap. She knew what he spoke of, but he had to add, poisonously, to let his distaste be known.
"Why do you waste your time down in those hovels?"
"Oh, Janus." She murmered, as though the words alone pained her. She looked at him as though he himself were an Earthbound- full of pity. "If you came with me, you would understand."
And she knew he wouldn't.