<blockquote>While making the rounds of the fort, Alexios accidentally stumbles across Hilarion in an intimate situation. And again. And then again. One might almost think it was more than just a coincidence. But that can't be true, can it? (Or: a story in which there are freckles and strigils, Alexios is exceedingly oblivious, and Hilarion flirts in wildly shameless ways.)</blockquote>