"Yes. I think...perhaps...more free adults, would be a better goal. After all, children can hardly work as Undertakers or Summoners." Though, he had started his work when he was very young. Truthfully, he thought he might find it harder to, as an adult, try and be childish.
As much as he missed his home, Abasi nodded along to Loren's comment. "No, I am too. I yearn for Egypt in my heart every day, yet here I have succeeded in ways I never had or would have done at home. I have spoken to new people, made...new connections." He squeezed Loren's hand, stroking up his wrist and arm fondly. "Found out things about myself that I never thought I could. So...it has been for the best." He could not have imagined hearing himself say such things when he first arrived; how quickly everything could change.
The long pause after his suggestion made him almost certain Loren was going to refuse; though the first thing the Launceleyn said implied that maybe he simply had not heard correctly? "Yes." Abasi confirmed, nodding with a frown, worried that he had not adequately explained himself. What he had managed to say had apparently rather rattled Loren and he waited patiently for an answer, his hands wrung together in his lap.
When he finally did receive an answer, it was worth the wait. Abasi laughed with pure surprised joy, eagerly leaning in to return Loren's kiss with far more passion than he usually permitted himself in public. Finally pulling away after a breathless moment he whispered, still close to Loren: "I am very pleased indeed. I did not think you would accept."
ABASI
it's sad to know that we are not alone
it's sad to know there's no honest way out
