This...makes Alfred blink at Herbert in surprise, just a little. The topic is... complicated, for him. He's been learning that his worldview before the castle was narrow...and learning what that means for him, exactly.

Nodding a little bit, he finally takes the shirt back up, tying off the seam and grabbing a wooden hoop from his basket.

"...The first night...after I was turned...you told me you had. You had always preferred men. How...did you know?"