[Now he starts catching on to her discomfort, her change in tone.]

Don't worry about it, it wasn't a huge deal. It wasn't pleasant, but it was just part of things.

I mean, my actual job was to go look for talented alchemists who we could convince to do what we wanted. Seducing someone is a pretty easy way to convince them, and I could look like anyone, so if we didn't have anyone else who could do it our master'd send me after the ones that would work best on.

[Which answers her question about exactly how much choice was involved in this.]