"Does it matter?" Estinien snaps back. All right, so he's a little hostile about it. The embarrassment of his inexperience combined with his confusion at anyone asking him what he likes leaves him wrong-footed and a bit flustered. He'd expected a man like Gaius, a man used to efficiency and conquest, to just...throw him down and show him by example. Being asked, rather than shown, makes him uncomfortable.

Azure Dragoons know they will never have families, and their lives will not be long. If you are the type to become Dragoon, you are the type who finds that fact a comfort.