...Your parents, right? [Exandria in general was accepting of all sexualities and gender identities, but that didn't mean everyone wanted their child to deviate from their expectations.] I...well. I knew that men could like men, but I thought I'd be just like my father, or the characters I read about, and I thought, of course I had to like women.

[He winces. How could he have ever thought that was true?]

So...I get it. A bit. Being sheltered didn't do me a lot of good.