Rhydian looked up at him again with an appreciative expression, not quite a smile, as he set his empty glass on the table. Most people, he thought, must understand - so many had done what he'd done, which might not have been good enough. But there was no use in dwelling on it. The silence hung for a moment too long before he straightened, raised his hand for a waiter, and set his elbows on the table, determined to press the conversation forward to something more lighthearted. "I studied religions for most of the time, actually." Well, a little more lighthearted. "Do you know, every single person in my seminar on the conversion of the Roman empire was an atheist? Sometimes you got the feeling it was all a little ... silly."