Xigbar barked a laugh at that, grinning at Ashton's sudden mysterious tone and and the far too dramatic styling. Hey, the kid was starting to pick it up! Good for him!

As for that one scar... well, at the start, Xigbar just let his grin linger, enjoying the feel of calloused fingers sliding over his body, something nice and easy now that he was all soaped up with nowhere to go. Kinda nice, really. "Sultan's guard," Xigbar murmured, "was snooping around to figure out where a genie's lamp was, got caught, got carved up kinda good before I got out. One of 'em nabbed me from behind, so it took awhile to get it sewed up. Hah..."

And here Xigbar tilted his head so he could glance at Ashton, that lopsided grin still on his face. "Guess they didn't want me taking phenomenal cosmic power away from 'em. Who woulda thought?"