The demidrake has the power to zap him into oblivion anytime he pleases, yet here we are, no zap. Haha. He’s in as much denial as those folks here complaining at the ‘weird and icky’ scenes, yet they can’t stop following the story, clutching their pearls though already 15 chapters in. Get off that high horse; it’s a long fall from that altitude of pretense. t(-_- t )