She actually pressed back against him as the kneeling woman leaned closer, and it telegraphed her shudder of revulsion into his body as she watched how the other fawned upon him like a petted dog.<br/><br/>"They think they speak the truth," she said, murmuring to him to keep from quite feeling as if she were talking over them like pets without understanding of her words. "That does not make it so; these things you have driven them to are not natural acts for our people."