Basil was quiet for a moment, and then said, "Well, I've never really thought about him in the way that you're suggesting. But we've been close friends for years now, so in that regard, yes." He shook his head. "But I don't quite see how that is relevant, and furthermore, how it is possibly any of your business."
	"Damn, he got you, Kaye," Leith said, whistling in an impressed tone. Karma was a bitch, after all, and he'd gladly serve as her hand. He wasn't there just to look pretty and menacing for her, like a pitiful with a rhinestone collar; he had other attributes, too, that were worth mentioning.