Leonardo - it's not as though I'm not flattered - you're an admirable man. But as I said - it would be inappropriate and irresponsible of me to - to behave that way.

[He tried to make a hand gesture to convey that way. It looked a bit like flailing. Which is what he was doing, inside and out.]

Especially when you're so clearly inebriated with... is it just alcohol they gave you?

[This was, after all, another world. And while it wasn't the center of chaos that Jerusalem's Lot was, there may be a few things different. Such as what they put in their drinks. And he would sooner believe that there was something else in that bottle than ever entertain the thought they'd sincerely want him to kiss them and call them pet names.]