She looked down at her lap, once more smoothing down her skirts out of habit. When she looked back up at him, she was quiet, her face thoughtful. Her gaze left him for a moment and she stared out over the tops of the trees, passed them to where at one point you could see a blue lining of the sea shore, but now, it was just a dark line, that was almost to the start of the forest. "You used to be able to see parts of the tops of the castle, where I stayed, from the mountains, or so I was told. You can't see it anymore, and it only leaves you to wonder if it is even there anymore, behind that dark mass," she said, speaking slowly, as if thinking out loud. She turned her gaze back to him, ever so slowly this time.
 "Part of me wants to go, to see if there is anything on the other side, or inside for that matter, inside the darkness. Yet part of me reminds myself that we never saw anyone return or any of the ships come back from the darkness, and fact in itself frightens me enough to stay away from it. I will stay with you, for those reasons, and for the fact that I dislike the idea of you being alone out here," she said. She had never had a moment alone it seemed, only ever when she would ask for some time alone in the bath, and her water pourers and bathroom servants would leave her be., but even that was only for a few moments here and there. "I do believe we are safe, for now, and I don't know if the darkness can scale up the mountain. How would we build a town, on a mountain?" She asked him, giving the idea a good amount of thought.