"Yes, my fiance is a wonderful listener," Claudius says with a soft smile of sheer love. "When I go into raptures over Galahad's gaze, it's partly metonymy. He doesn't look away. There are so many unspoken rules governing where a person's allowed to look, times you’ll be considered presumptuous for looking someone straight in the eye, or dishonest if you don’t. I could write a book twice the size of Emily Post’s Etiquette on the subject. Quite frankly, it’s exhausting to keep all those rules in mind without a manual — but that doesn’t matter with Galahad, because Galahad doesn’t follow them. When he looks at you, he looks intently the entire time. I’m not measuring my words against his glances, waiting for him to look away in boredom or disgust so I can rein my words in. In fact, I know it’s pointless to. He has ways to tell me when I’ve said too much too fast, but he hears what I have to say, and listens intently as he looks.”