If I can stop one heart from breaking
If I can ease one life the aching
If I can ease one life the aching
His smile only brightens at her assurance, though it dies moments after at her rather light-hearted warning. He knows it is only her past that makes her so cynical, and that it is not targeted at him directly, but it hurts all the same. "I know I can only prove it day by day, but I would never," he vows quietly. Nobody had ever propositioned him in the time he'd been with her, but it didn't matter. He had been loyal to a dead woman for years before he met Phoebe. Had only felt he could let her go after speaking to Delphia. He was not a man who would cheat.
"Ring hunting it is," he laughs, warm and willing to move forward. Designs and the like don't matter much to him. "And Maeve told me when she returned a quest from Safrin, that Safrin instituted protective magic for all the children in Caido during the war. If any are at risk of harm, they will be secreted away - so we don't have to worry about our children coming to any harm if we have them now." Face alight with ecstatic joy, that last little hurdle that had kept him quiet of his desires finally overcome.
"Ring hunting it is," he laughs, warm and willing to move forward. Designs and the like don't matter much to him. "And Maeve told me when she returned a quest from Safrin, that Safrin instituted protective magic for all the children in Caido during the war. If any are at risk of harm, they will be secreted away - so we don't have to worry about our children coming to any harm if we have them now." Face alight with ecstatic joy, that last little hurdle that had kept him quiet of his desires finally overcome.
I shall not live in vain
HARPER
