Joshua shrugs a bit, just smiling his smile. "No good story has only drama or comedy. You need a little of something even if the other dominates the plot. Spike gets that, right?"

When the maid gets close, Joshua waves to get her attention and then points at the hearth. Pretty simple enough! He hadn't had it going because he wouldn't notice as much as these two, really.

"But I'm the one who requested he tell a story... It's only fair that I tell him one of my own, too." Not really. Spike owes him this story. Joshua's just playing a game, but who knows what kind. "If Lucrezia wants to request another story, she can tell her own. You may not know anything about the Borgia, Spike, but the church is always full of good stories!" He doesn't just mean the Catholic church, either, but the Exorcists have nothing to do with Lucrezia.