I've requested he avoid such overwrought methods of address in the past. I didn't think I would need to justify the reasons why, if he had any modicum of courtesy or respect. If he wonders why he can't seem to get on with others, then perhaps he should look no further than how he callously thinks himself above the boundaries others would set as he so pleases.

That he drags others into the games he plays without giving them due warning is more proof of the same self-involvement that grates at me.

[ her eyes are flashing, but she recognizes that jy is merely an unwitting instrument, and that the tool (in the other sense of the word) here is solomon. ugh. ]

If you would seek to court him, then perhaps you might think to temper that particular habit of his.