"I will return the flame to you on the day of our wedding- that is our scheduled one- I think it is rather symbolic, a bit like a wedding gift, is that okay by you?" Soren asks tentatively, tilting my head upwards slightly to look at me straight, an eyebrow raised, willing me to answer.
I know right then and there that if I protested, asked for it a different day, perhaps even right now, he would have fetched it for me without a second thought. I could have asked him to do anything for me, could have willed him to kill half his court, and he would have done it, if only to see me smile.
I could even have asked him to run butt naked around the palace, and he would have grinned, saying: