“I’m keen to be stopped for kisses,” Liris mentioned, “particularly such… clarifying ones. Although perhaps much less implication of imminent assault subsequent time?”

She picked up pace once more, not likely certain what was occurring between them anymore, and moments later Vhannor was flying alongside her.

“We haven’t talked about what both of us would need in a ceremony, not to mention a wedding, however you deserve greater than a marriage on the facet of the street,” Vhannor informed her. “You deserve a public marriage ceremony the place it’s clear to everybody—and particularly you—that you just deserve greater than being hidden away, that I’m honored and awed to be seen to face with you.”

Oh. “Additionally romantic,” Liris allowed, “however I don’t want that from you. Or—properly, I received that on the ball in Tellianghu, didn’t I?”

“The place we have been there underneath false pretenses, letting everybody marvel what our relationship was? No, no you didn’t.”

“You have been keen to current me as your accomplice,” Liris mentioned. “That was sufficient. And it’s candy of you to need wonders for me, however that’s not what I care about right here.”

“It’s not simply that,” Vhannor mentioned. “I don’t need you to really feel pressured—“

“Oh gods, not this once more, Vhann—“

”—by time. There’s a lot taking place now. You don’t desire a ball, high quality, however it is best to get to have a marriage whichever method you need it, together with your selections unconstrained.”

Hmm. “And if what I need is shortly on the facet of the street?”

Vhannor reddened once more, however his voice was agency. “Then we’ll discover one other insurgent priest.”

“Not like that one.”

“Later,“ he growled, “as soon as we’ve talked about what we each need, as a result of marriage shouldn’t be a shock.”

Liris narrowed her eyes. “Simply because I’m inexperienced doesn’t imply I don’t know what I need.”

“That’s not what I meant.”

“There are few different methods to take it,” Liris mentioned. “As a result of if it’s not that I don’t know what I need, then when you’re undecided about me and wish extra time—“

“That’s not it.”

”—to simply accept that I’m certain about you, that actually actually is ok, Vhannor. I don’t wish to push you into one thing you’re undecided of any greater than you’d need that for me. However let’s be clear: any delay isn’t for my sake.”

She watched him seek for phrases. “It’s… not simply the marriage. It’s marriage. It’s what life you need for your self, and what I need, and what it could imply for us. My responsibility has at all times been my complete life, and I’m making an attempt to create space for extra, however it’ll by no means not be essential to me.”

“I do know that, Vhannor,” Liris mentioned. “From the primary day we met, I’ve identified that. And I informed you then I wished extra, and that hasn’t modified. Love and journey, collectively ceaselessly? That sounds good.”

He sucked in a breath, swallowed. Managed: “Liris, I don’t wish to lure you in my responsibility.”

Liris smiled and reached out a hand. She beloved this man to items, even when he was notably dense on this level. “It’s not a lure if I select it for myself, Vhann. And I may solely ever select a course for my life that issues to me. That’s who I’m.”

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Opened them, and matched her pace precisely, putting his hand on hers. Completely in sync.

“Sure,” he mentioned, and now his eyes have been shining with tears. “Sure, it’s.”

Void it, if she saved taking a look at him she was going to cry once more, or injure them each by yanking him right into a kiss, however she couldn’t look away.

“I don’t know what you thought I meant after I informed you I’d stick with you,” Liris mentioned. “Did this actually by no means happen to you?”

Vhannor winced. “When you assume I haven’t been overanalyzing that for weeks, you don’t know me in addition to I believe you do. I simply… you’re certain. You’d actually give me this. I imagine you, and but—“

Okay, she may look away lengthy sufficient to roll her eyes. “I’m not a present, or an asset, any greater than you might be. I’m an individual.”

“Your love is a present.”

“Properly, you have already got that, marriage or no marriage,” Liris mentioned, then turned again to him fiercely. “I can’t promise to not die. However I can promise if there’s any method within the universe to reside and keep by your facet, I’ll do all the pieces in my energy to seek out it, and I gained’t quit. So. Will you marry me?”

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