"Where I come from, that would be considered as unhealthy but! I think that we are indeed in very different circumstances, and what you have with Orc is just as 'normal' or 'sane' as a blue centaur with four eyes, or 14 year old fully trained ninja and medic. Or six-foot tall militant lizard people, or time travel or..." Barbara broke her ramble to sigh a little, "or just about anything else on this ship.

"However," she continued ever so cautiously, "if you feel that your relationship with Orc would survive and you don't want him drinking so much, you could help him off the alcohol. If you wanted to, that is."