"It is not a quote as much as thoughts given to the nature of these games. The people here appear to delight in sensations, perhaps it is what they need to stave off boredom. Having faced the Throne and been judged, I find my thoughts on excess of sensations dangerous. The pathway to Slaneesh, corruption of Chaos. Yet there is perhaps enough restraint here to not appear quite<em>that bad.</em>"<br/><br/>Nikolai was not making a real accusation, but one that knew him might pick up that it was only his loyalty that stopped him from going that far. Imperial elite seemed jaded in their excess to need games like this, but he desired wealth and power, as well as some sensations he had to admit. That left him with a headache and some feeling of hypocrisy.<br/><br/>"It is good to spend a moment or two socializing from time to time. I encourage that, though it is a psyker's thoughts so to take it as you will. Personally, I would rather keep a few things private, but then again I am a guest not a master."<br/><br/><em>'Not to mention that being a Psyker as well as blind in the conventional sense makes the whole matter a touch pointless.'</em>He thought grimly at his own nature, yet knew quite well that if not for his giftand curse he would have been mere cog in a great machine, a nameless crewmember on a hulking ship awaiting a random act of cruelty deep in the bowels of some likely half-wrecked ship.<br/><br/>"I would have to say though the faces of mankind are many, the different worlds and customs, the different levels of social classes can make it difficult to establish what the baseline is to different groups. Still, tonight? I choose to believe they consider this a celebration to indulge a particular sort of behaviour. Similar to rituals of maintenance, perhaps, though intended to comfort and appease their own spirits rather than machine ones? I might even add a different group of men might choose a different method of relaxation, rituals such as excess drinking and fighting, as mere examples."<br/><br/>Finally he closed his mouth, uncertain why he had gone to such length in his reply, though not regretting it.