"Noted," he replies, grinning to himself. No lectures, then, but he will sneak her more vegetables.

"What? Gods, no!" he sputters. "I'm not sure it's even removable at all, though I'm working on theories, and none of them involve that. You've seen the marking, it's lodged in my chest, not elsewhere." He flicks her arm. "I just have no interest in anything so casual. Not that I never tried... romantic companionship of a briefer nature, before Mystra, when I was a younger man. It never brought me much enjoyment though, the way it did others. You may think it ridiculous, but I'm afraid I'm just uninterested unless my heart is in it."