It is, perhaps, even a step above luxury into a kind of decadence. Further examination reveals an odd mix of what look like ancient influences but also modern touches and everything in between. It's as though he's always been a "lord" but what that's looked like has changed over the years, leaving traces of the old in places, though the house much more resembles a manor house of the present than the temple it still has traces of.

Whatever Ashley is doing when Ereuvir finds him, he tugs him away from it and pulls him in for a long, possessive kiss, probably unexpectedly heated, but he often seems to like to reassert his claim whenever he's been gone for very long.

"I'm home," he says, with a hint of a laugh in the statement that shows he knows how redundant that is. "And I've brought you a present."