Secret. [ deception seems too harsh. ] You know I'm Buddhist, right? There's these things in Buddhist stories called yakṣa. They're pretty much werewolves, but they're the attendants to this god, Vaiśravaṇa. This guy is the god that protects the righteous, the... fucking just and morally upstanding people that you can actually call virtuous. [ more alcohol, he's gonna take a drink before he continues. liquid courage for being a sap. ] Lan, you're a paladin, you're the most... good person I know. [ even if he's afraid of cell phones. ] That hasn't changed.

[ if it's good enough for vaiśravaṇa, it's good enough for gus. ]