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"So you are thinking ... I hear all your thoughts," Rohen said in a serious tone. "I'm not testing you at all, I just want you! There is no manipulation here, just my need to have a nice time with you. I could easily take you to my Citadel without any explanation, cast a spell, deprive you of last memory so that you become only mine, but I cannot do this to my dear Eriolan, who has already lost his previous lover one hundred years ago."

"And I would become your prisoner?"

"Everything would depend on your behavior: a prisoner or a partner. In fact, I do not seek to force interact with me against the will, I only suggest, but sometimes there is a desire to win someone's heart. And then I insist on contacting me. You are so cute and it is not easy to ignore your existence. Do you think this is violence? This is what Lyor did to you - he forced you to accept him. How do you feel about him? Do you love him?"