"Thanks for listening to me, too." Wallie gave her a smile. "Look, I'm guessing there aren't any more... anyone else like you, here." He'd been about to say "any more like you" and then thought better of it; it sounded kind of insensitive, not to mention demeaning. For that matter, was what he actually said any better? Maybe, maybe not, but it was as good a save as he could come up with on the fly.

"But either way, I think I can easily promise not to reveal your transgression to your Kindred, if it matters to you. If it comes up." He shrugged easily. "I won't lie and say this is easy for me to accept; it isn't. But I have some practice at coping with previously impossible things, so."