"Maybe I already have super strength and I've kept it hidden. You never know."

It seemed she stumped him, calling him out to explain his question further. He did so and she listened intently.

"Oh, well...If things happened differently. Hm..." she hummed in thought. "Well, then we'd likely be with someone else wouldn't we? Men are much more bold in Syliras and I imagine even more so in Zeltiva. They used to come up to me occasionally and ask me to dinner. I guess I would have eventually sought the attentions of one of them, but probably not for a long while. I think I only felt comfortable to become betrothed to you because we'd been so close and you'd become the only person I trusted completely. I think if we never developed romance, I'm not sure I would have bonded until much later, but in the end, I think we still would have bonded, fought, and eventually made up just the same, and I think we would probably be on our way to Zeltiva regardless. You are very important to me, as a husband or if it was just as a friend."

"Well...when it comes to loving someone, even though you were mean at times and what you call as not normal, I saw through it. At first I didn't enjoy your behavior and thought it strange, but you were the only person I knew, and for whatever reason, I felt I could trust that you'd keep me safe. There was something intense about you, almost protective. It wasn't shown to me right at the beginning, but soon afterward. I needed that protection. I needed to feel like this world in Syliras was not going to kill me, and you kind of made me feel that way. At the orphanage I saw how you were with the kids, like big cute kid yourself. I think that made me like you more as a friend when you came there with me. I didn't know what you were, or what a kelvic was at all really, so when we fought in the Stallion, it was kind of revealing to me that I wasn't dealing with what I would understand as a normal human, at least that's what you expressed to me."

"From then on, I tried to help you seem more human as I thought that's kind of what you wanted and in the course of doing that, I drew closer. After Caesarion, I could see the change in you. I could see how death seemed almost too good in your senses and I cared for you. I didn't like to see you like that, so I decided to love you, care for you, despite how you acted. As you got better, I think that love remained. You were closer than ever to me, and it only grew. Eventually I began to notice my attraction for you. You really helped me when my parents sent me that letter disowning me, and I think when you did that, my love grew even more for you. It was harder then...to separate my love for you as someone like a protector and a friend, and someone I actually loved and cared about romantically."