I would like to try being in love and loved in turn, but I doubt I ever will. [The answer is automatic. That's what he's wanted since he possessed Kristoff's body and felt the ghost of his relationship with his wife. That's what he's wanted since meeting Aura and avenging her husband for her. He wants what they had with the sort of intensity that isn't appropriate for a spirit to want anything besides its virtue.

And of course he says it because he has no filter. That's spirits for you.

As he takes another drag of the fyrrah, he considers other answers to her question.] I suppose I am also curious about sex. It seems to be a central aspect of most mortals' experiences of life.