The note meeting his eyes is unusual, and worrying, because lots of people don't want to meet Kai's eyes because of what he is but Bashasa has never been one of them. There's a lingering fear in that, that somehow the man grief fueling the man when they first met had made him blind to what Kai was in some sort of fashion, and that time has made him more align with his fellows in his opinion of the Fourth Prince.

Still, he forces himself to wait, and the look on the other man's face does a bit to ease his nerves- blushing is not really a response that makes sense, but it's also not horror- until Bashasa's explanation finally clicks into his head.

"Oh." It's perhaps a bit more of a subdued reaction than one would expect, Kai's brow furrowing as it takes it in. Sex with demons is not some horrible thing that the Hierarchs and the Arik seem to think it is, it was a foundation in Saredi culture for getting demon blood into their family lines, but then the fact that he is the demon in question properly sinks in. "Oh."

Kai flushes now too, eyes suddenly darting to be literally anywhere else. He's thought about it. Of course he has, he's neither blind nor stupid and he's pretty sure he loved Bashasa within a week of meeting him, but Bashasa is also just that kind of person. Everyone loves him. Kai is nothing special in that regard. "Anyone who knows you knows you wouldn't," he says, which-- he means they know Bashasa wouldn't use someone like that. That might not be what Bashasa hears.