[Wrapped around him the way he is, there's absolutely no way he could hope to hide the way he stiffens up, just a touch, at that particular endearment of nomenclature.

Don't call me senpai, Rohan had said himself, earlier. Evidently the distaste for names like that doesn't necessarily run both ways...]

That's not a physics lesson. It's a biology lesson. The gargoyle is an animal, it's predator behavior.

[Oops. Speaking of clinical.]

...Have you ever heard of an Immelmann turn?