Serph watches Jack's reaction in mild bemusement. Has he asked a question with an answer that would seem immediately obvious to anyone else?

He listens to Jack's explanation in rapt attention. Desire... is that the word for hunger without devouring? There is a very long pause as Serph processes the new information. It does very aptly describe how things felt during the moon warp after John had breathed back life into him. If he had truly wanted to hurt John he... would have used his blades like he had in the beginning. But instead they had only inflicted minor -- "minor" -- injuries on each other while tangling limbs until they joined together.

For hours.

Very slowly, Serph shakes his head. He knows he was willing. And the way John spoke his name and the number of times John said Yes would very strongly suggest that John was willing, too.

"In the oasis, John transformed." Which, in hindsight shouldn't have been so surprising; John had remained strangely human-like all this time, having so few changes outside of those ones that have since faded away. "He was like a different person."

And he has a feeling that sudden change in demeanour wasn't entirely from the moon warp.