Interesting that he preferred not to talk about himself, but they'd only just met, so Alcuin didn't mind.

"Perhaps back to Paris for a bit," he said. "And then more of Europe. I may travel with a friend, he suggested Prague, Vienna, Budapest..."

He never referred to Hannibal as his boyfriend, because it sounded silly, and was inaccurate. And saying something like lover was just as bad. He didn't care for labels.