"Well. Then that's good?"

"I think so. They, uh, wanted to know if we were still planning to get married."

"I ...thought we talked about that and decided we'd die if we did that."

"Imrainai suggested we could make different promises than people usually make. Maybe about current intent. She pointed out that human marriages are not enforced with lightning strikes. But - I don't know if - it would be a good idea, even with that."

"Oh?"

"Just - 

"I don't know what you want."

"I know what I wanted."

Nod.

"Thought I was doing pretty well at it, too."

"Yeah. I thought so."

"Hagan suggested that it might be - weirder, less accepted, or something, for fairies to love people who didn't belong to them. I didn't know whether that was true."

"I dunno about weird. Just - stupid. Sort of tragic."

" - I think 'stupid' was the word he used, actually. Over translation, of course, but."

"I don't know what it is to love someone you can't do any favors and can't protect and can't take care of and can't hear stories from and can't hold. It seems kind of like - announcing you're in love with the moon, or something. Your life still won't have any more moon in it than anyone else's life."

Nod.

"It's not fair."

"No, it isn't.

"Elizabeth might be able to cause your court to forget your name. That's - probably a horrible thing to suggest, but - "

"Where would we go? Not - here - I hate this place -"

"I don't know. I don't know how safe it is to wander, without a court. I - suppose if there was a way to contact her, we might be able to come back here when we needed things - you can tell me it's an awful idea, it probably is - "

"It's not super smart to wander without a court but it'd be okay if we could contact her, probably. I -

-  if we did it you'd be okay having debt again? Being mine again?"

Nodnodnod. "As long as you didn't - if it was like before."

"I feel like I'm - asking too much of you and I don't even understand why -"

" - too much how? I'm the one asking you to leave your court - "

"But you're - back among humans and could just go be a human with them and never think of me again and I want you to - stay -"