Hushed Willows I'm the one who put you in this position.

There it was again. Love. Did he love her? He had to - or else the thoughts of her wouldn't swarm his mind every waking moment, and most of his sleeping moments too. It still left him with the same question of how his emotions were involved given how she had been behaving, but it was splitting hairs to try and assume it was a switch he could just turn off. He couldn't. At the end of the day, there was no option there to simply shut his feelings off. 

Instead Stark made a small face, neither confirming nor denying what his friend was saying and peered off through the willows. "I'm going to start scouting - you're welcome to come with me. I'd appreciate the company and you'd get a better feel for the lands then too." Stark said easily. "And putting you to work will keep your figure nice so when we do find someone, they won't bail because you'll squash them." Stark teased.