[The shock is wearing off and now he just looks wary, confused. He doesn't like not knowing wtf is going on. And this is definitely not the kind of thing you'd fuck with him over.
... And otherwise how would Dorian even know about the kadan tradition, anyway...]
[So, so abruptly unsettled that it's a little terrifying how quickly he feels unbalanced by this.]
It's... [...] You're not fucking with me, right? [You wouldn't. There'd be no reason to. Especially not about this kind of joke. But he can't make sense of it.]