For his part, Leon watches Lev's expression carefully until they look away (until he looks away?) - though Leon takes the break in eye contact as a sign of discomfort rather than an attempt to ease the tension of the conversation, frowning sympathetically. As before, it takes him a second to puzzle through what he's being told, but not quite as long this time.

"Right," he says, nodding slowly as he puts the pieces together. "Someone else tried to explain something like this to me earlier? Being genderfluid, or at least not being one or the other all the time."

And he doesn't quite get it, not really, but Lev's explanation kind of makes sense? Just asking people to call him the same thing they'd call themselves, mostly. Although...

"And I mean, I'm, uh, heterosexual. But..." He takes a deep breath, and it's his turn to glance away, looking around the room to make sure no one's close or engaged enough to overhear. Mercifully everyone seems to be paying attention to their own business, so he'd better say it before he chickens out. "My family didn't... exactly expect me to grow up to be a man. But I am. So where does that leave you, when you're talking to me?"

(He is a little tripped up by the question of what other shapes would people be? But that's getting filed away as a question to ask later, once he's got the basics of how to refer to Lev out of the way.)