I am supposed to be protecting the lady in question's privacy. But...
I'm done with breaking women's hearts. Do you know what happens when you break a woman's heart? They leave. Even if there is a blood tie there. They leave, and it's even worse than physically feeling them die. It is like they take the world away with them!
I have not felt regret in hundreds of years, but I feel it now. I have no desire to compound my error.
Besides...
[He hesitates]
I know you are responsible for Persephone. But more importantly I know that you care about her. So I swear to you on what scraps of honor I maintain that I will not lie to you on this matter any more than were you her brother.
What I have told you is absolutely true. I stake no claim; I am merely at her disposal, waiting to see what she decides. I would never dare pursue her unless two things happened. I would have to know she desired such, and...I would have to be truly capable.
I told you my problems with feeling things. But some times, and some people, they make me want to. Persephone may or may not have a heart like a human's. but she still deserves better than I can give right now. Even if she were to come to want more from me than an assignation. And I know it.
I am not worthy of her. But when I think on her, it's true. Sometimes I find that I truly wish I was.
Just like I wish I had been worthy of Aleera.
[Just watch the denial start to crumble....]
Not to be husband or lord to a goddess, for that is impossible. And from what little I know of her, it is hideously inappropriate to even contemplate. Rather a companion who is there because she wants me to be.
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Date: 2011-05-08 11:25 am (UTC)I am supposed to be protecting the lady in question's privacy. But...
I'm done with breaking women's hearts. Do you know what happens when you break a woman's heart? They leave. Even if there is a blood tie there. They leave, and it's even worse than physically feeling them die. It is like they take the world away with them!
I have not felt regret in hundreds of years, but I feel it now. I have no desire to compound my error.
Besides...
[He hesitates]
I know you are responsible for Persephone. But more importantly I know that you care about her. So I swear to you on what scraps of honor I maintain that I will not lie to you on this matter any more than were you her brother.
What I have told you is absolutely true. I stake no claim; I am merely at her disposal, waiting to see what she decides. I would never dare pursue her unless two things happened. I would have to know she desired such, and...I would have to be truly capable.
I told you my problems with feeling things. But some times, and some people, they make me want to. Persephone may or may not have a heart like a human's. but she still deserves better than I can give right now. Even if she were to come to want more from me than an assignation. And I know it.
I am not worthy of her. But when I think on her, it's true. Sometimes I find that I truly wish I was.
Just like I wish I had been worthy of Aleera.
[Just watch the denial start to crumble....]
Not to be husband or lord to a goddess, for that is impossible. And from what little I know of her, it is hideously inappropriate to even contemplate. Rather a companion who is there because she wants me to be.