 You alluded to this. Brother Nicephorus finds himself contending with what I'll refer to as a damned attraction, doesn't he? Brother Nicephorus is clearly attracted to the relic hunter. And, you know, it might be the other way around too, but it's a little hard to tell because they're also, like in many other noir novels, think of this as sort of a medieval noir novel, you have the detective and then the person who hires them, and they might actually be betraying each other. But weirdly enough, that betrayal seems kind of hot.