"It was okay with me when you were only with me because you had to, long as you were happy. But I guess I can see how that'd be nicer."

"You kept saying you thought I'd find a human, when I could. And - I don't really want to do things that'd make you think that."

"I don't - think you did anything. I just figured that you'd want whoever could take the best care of you."

"I guess that makes sense. Well. I love you. And I don't want to leave, and I don't want you to think that I want to."

"All right. So promising that makes sense."

Nod.

"I guess then there's honoring someone. ...I'd tell you what I think it means but I'm kind of curious about what you do."

"Hmmm. I'd think of - treating someone like they're important and how they are reflects on you and your court."

"That makes sense. I guess I think of it as - treating someone like they're important, and doing things that'll reflect well on them and not badly."

Nodnod. "That feels right, yeah, about doing things that'll reflect well on them."

"All right. The other thing on your list is 'comfort.'"

"That one's easy. Snuggle you and tell you you're loved. And arguably enslave the emperor."

Hug.

"Sounds good to me. And then - a wife is to serve and obey her husband. I guess I think obeying you is doing what you say, and serving you is - trying to do what you would want even if you haven't told me what to do."

"That makes sense."

"All right.

"And then you are, uh, supposed to promise not to sleep with anyone else. Is there - anything else on the list that seems like - you don't think you should intend to do forever - "

"No, the other things seem very reasonable to intend to do forever."

"Okay."

Snuggle.

"...I suppose if I'd been married to a pagan, and he had intended to take concubines, I wouldn't have thought that that made it a sin for me to sleep with him. But I think I ought to promise not to sleep with anyone else."

"Okay. You can promise that and I can promise not to for four dozen sunrises and then to talk about it with you then."

"Okay. We can do that."

Kiss.

Kiss.

"Normally people have a ceremony and invite lots of people, but - I think that would be logistically complicated."

"A little bit. We could do the ceremony part. Get a lot of food and ...flowers and so on."

"That could be nice. ...there're also supposed to be rings, but I don't know where we'd get them."

"We could make them."

"From what? I guess if you have a knife maybe you could carve them out of wood?"

"Wood, or vines, or bone if we can find it - I don't know if it's important what the rings are made of -"