I have it on good authority [ another Dimitri's word ] that you've got certain standards.

[ Yuri huffs out an amused breath, pouring their tea into the glasses with a certain grace that bespeaks a very practiced awareness of appearances. ]

Sometimes I think Ashe forgets that I didn't resort to criminality out of any preference... It's a means to an end, always has been, but that's not to say I like it.