[He thinks he gets it, what's wrong. He didn't pick up on it any sooner, but he's just going to take a wild guess and assume that Balfour's been bullied for this before. Or something like that, at least.]

People are assholes, and some of them judge too much. I'm not like that, though. [How could he be. Even if he wasn't bi, the fact that hundreds of years ago his family and others were hunted down and killed just for being different and having magic would be enough to ensure that he didn't judge others harshly.]

Hey now, I'm not so sure about that. [He has a...well, okay, yeah, it's kind of questionable. His taste in men, that is. But not in this case. Well, he doesn't think, at least.] We did just meet. There's plenty of time to get to know each other.