Seeing you happy is the best gift I could ever ask for.

Love made her patient. It made her hopeful.

Tell me, warrior, how soon can we do this again?

There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.

But if I lost you, it would devastate me as nothing else has or ever could. You have so much power over me and that’s frightening.

Caelen?” “Aye, lass?” “You were right.” “What was I right about?” “Kissing. ’Tis a most wondrous thing.” She could sense his smile.

He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.