Yeah, [ Matt says gratefully, ] yeah, it's like a component. Or a mechanism. And I mean, in terms of suitability ... I haven't exactly tried it in a combat scenario, but it really can power any spell. It doesn't drain me like casting just through my body, since it's like--mutually generated energy.

[ Okay, now Matt definitely feels like he was holding out by not mentioning it before. ]

I would've said something sooner, [ he adds, sheepish. ] I definitely don't want to put either of us at risk. It's just, um, it's such an intimate thing by nature. I wouldn't even know how to ask somebody who I didn't know was attracted to me and wanted to act on it.

[ Hence his offers to Tezcatlipoca. ]