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... That's attractive, right?

I believe so.

Then that's all that matters!

Is it so strange a thing? To love even that which challenges?

Not for me. What would I know of anyone else's thoughts on the subject?

( asked softly. so very, very softly. )

Perhaps we should ask others wedded.

( The longest sigh. )

In which case, you mean Emilia and Wrath, who from what I can tell, also didn't know they were married for a portion of time?

Perhaps... aged pairs. Crones and old men.

Know you many? I won't count the family that pays for my guarding as being a goodly example. The woman's married five times. Divorced three. Widowed once.

Surely they exist at each marketplace.

They do, people marry, stay happy, stay in the give and take, like the tidings of seasons.

Would you... consider it? To remain here. Happy, through the tidings of seasons.

... You and I?

( the question really: alone? )

( Without those whose life would benefit from improvement and advantage elsewhere. And yet: )

Where no man knows your name.

( Where the Yiling Patriarch is not reviled, hunted. )