[When Maia thanks him and says that he knew he was not wrong to trust him, Csevet ducks his head and smiles his assent, his understanding. As always, it is a relief and a pleasure to be trusted by Maia, and he flushes at the compliment. Then Maia is hesitating as if he is about to ask a difficult question, and Csevet stills, eyes on him as he carefully, tentatively addresses the issue of whether Csevet disapproves of Csethiro's inclinations, that he hadn't been inclined to think he disapproved of Mer Celehar either.

Of course, from how Maia is speaking and his reaction to his future Empress' admission, Csevet doesn't believe that Maia thinks ill of those types of inclinations, but feels hesitant to admit too much about himself without confirmation of such.]

You are correct. We see nothing wrong with Dach'osmin Ceredin's inclinations, nor Mer Celehar's.

[For the moment, he leaves it at that, because Maia is continuing to speak, explaining that he's had no call or opportunity to discover what his own inclinations might be, after being raised in Edonomee and having the Court impose an Empress on him. Or rather, having Csevet advise him to pick an Empress - that makes him cringe slightly, internally, knowing that he'd had no choice and yet that he'd added to Maia's current confusion.]

We assure you, Serenity, it is quite common not to know one's own inclinations when one has not had the opportunity to explore them. If it is not too forward to of us to ask, have you had any inklings of interest?

[It's a tentative question, and spoken gently.]