"And yet, their women are so small... How does that...?" His question trailed off into tasteful ambiguity. "You are larger than the average Auri woman, is all that I'm saying."

There were many biological questions, but ones he definitely was not going to ask. Like: Horns and childbirth. They weren't like aldgoats, since those were their ears and not true horns. Hm.

"In the Temple Knights, we used to keep one another company during bathing, from time to time. Had to be careful about which commander was about. 'Twas safer to wait for nightfall, of course. Though the obvious trade off is you could never see anything."

He worked down the tail, filling a literal wooden pail with fur. When he reached the end, he went over it once more, satisfied by how the brush stopped catching. "It sounds as if you are trying to entice me, which such a comment."