[ If it's a weird place to wax poetic about this kind of thing, Ryoji doesn't seem to mind. Then again, when something is just a part of your accepted, everyday existence, the only limits are what others are comfortable with. Wriothesley doesn't shrink away from it the way others might, however, so that's reassuring enough that Ryoji doesn't steer the conversation elsewhere, either. Even if, in the back of his mind...

He'll need some time to ingest the meaning of those words. That the moon can shine with a light of its own... ]

Do anything and everything that LILITH asks of me. I owe them a great debt in bringing me here, after all, and I've far from repaid it.

[ A beat, a hand fluttering over his hair. ]

I don't mean to say I believe they're beyond reproach or anything, but...they have earned my loyalty, by sparing me from my fate, for the time being.