Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5543592-20140213025135/@comment-11457306-20140220050714

Brighid lifted her eyebrows in surprise. She'd put him on the spot, to be sure, but she hadn't expected such a frank answer. She knew he spoke the truth, from the way he said it, as if it had cost him much to drag it out between them.

His past explained him, she thought. He had never known love, not the way she had. At least she thought not, unless there had been a woman before her. Growing up in Honorhall had to have been hard and his parents had obviously not loved each other. His very conception had been a cold-hearted transaction, with Septims laid down for a night of pleasure. Then he had been abandoned.

She stood and walked over to him, looking into his eyes for the truth. He shifted nervously and she'd never seen anyone turn so red before.

"I like you too, Emrey.  Let's just see where it takes us, okay?"