[if this goes on I'm gonna have to start kinkshaming

Unfortunately moreso than fortunately, kissing a deceased loved one is also a prominent enough motif that Levity can still chalk it up to "it's poetry". Because he's unaware that this Absinthe is real, though, Levity parses the scene as a manifestation of his own attraction to the man - and, well, that is embarrassing! But maybe there's no harm in indulging it a little - he's in the privacy of his own mind, after all, and dreams are strange things. It's fine.]