Oh, for the love of fudge, it had just described having fantasies about debauching 'a human partner' in some alien body which had no hands and only one eye. The rest was left to the imagination, unfortunately, and Vlad was imaginative. Reddening, Vlad managed not to recoil only through supreme effort and the deliberate mental shutdown of that line of thought right away.

After all, the... VUX might be sex-crazed but it wasn't a threat so long as it was clumsy in this body still. Unless that were a lie, Vlad himself didn't exactly make plain his own true capabilities. Something about the overwhelming, painfully blunt honesty did seem to lend it an air of verisimilitude.

"Hmm. A brilliant tactical mind. That's admirable." Of course, the man, er, VUX was the one who'd said it, but it still could be true. If nothing else, the man was alive after a war, though would strategic skill in a space battle really apply well to a situation like this? Intelligence could be... quite directed, in some individuals. "It must be difficult not to be able to use your full talents here, then."