It will not get the reaction Gaius expects. Estinien scowls, turning his face away again. "No soldier with sense would get close to an Azure Dragoon. If your Severa pleases you, take her for yourself, I do not need such things."

People who get close to him die, or are maimed. The only exception so far has been the Scions and that's because they're powerful enough to protect themselves. An ordinary soldier would stand no chance. Even with the war over, the violence that acccompanies an Azure Dragonn seems to Estinien to be inevitable. A fact of fate.