The extent of Seoraj's familiarity with the notion, prior to Baedal, consisted of vague rumours that invariably concerned foreigners; he hasn't had much occasion to give it more thought, before, but at least in his case that mostly means a lack of inconvenient preconceived ideas. Large parts of his life have been 'find something interesting, make up the rest as he goes along', so why should this be different--?

What makes him uneasy has nothing to do with Bruce - Tom - but the locale. It's never been consciously deliberate but it's also never been coincidence that the women he gets deeply involved with have tended to be foreign women, women in cities he was passing through, relationships that had an inevitable and consistent endgame. Sooner or later he had to go, and though some endings were less amicable than others, ultimately they all ended the same way, without necessarily much input of his.

It's not something he's particularly inclined to examine, though, and there's another long, hard day ahead of them tomorrow; there's only a quiet chuckle in the darkness, and then sleep, and in the morning the change between them is just awareness, for now, so they can go on.