She smiled as she eyed him, knowing she wanted to believe she'd never have cause for alarm. As she stood there next to him, it really began to solidify things for the two of them and where they may have been looking to go. Ever consistently Eirik's mind was on the future, and sometimes Connor's was as well.

But for those immediate moments, she thought they were the same. They only wanted to be with one another in those particular ways.

"Connor," she began with a subtle serious demeanour. "As long as you are happy, that is what will matter most. It does not have to be with me. Yet you are important to me, and so is your joy. Maybe once I may not have been able to say it and mean it. It seems love has a way of changing things."