"Well, someone has to show Guy how to drink seeing as someone decided to nudge him of the sobriety wagon." Nikola replied, not adding childishly that Guy had started it even if he had. He was over a century, petty childishness should have been behind him by now. "See, someone who understands. No one here cheats, it's politics what are they expecting?"

Nikola leaned back in his chair, arm sliding behind Alcuin before he stretched his foot out to nudge Guy's table. "Yes and your human desire made you weak and susceptible to a mere pretty boy tempting you. You could have at least given in to someone more... anything. Smarter, maturer, superior, anyone else."