Blacktail Deer Plateau Will it take easier on you now

Osprey chuckled, when Lasher told her that she was not an old and hopeless beast yet. She gave him a curious glance and smiled at him. He was a very good friend to see past the ragged and worn appearance and still believe that there was a princess hidden somewhere inside. The truth was that she neither looked, nor felt beautiful. She felt old and tired of living a life, where there was more uncertainty than consistency. 

He spoke about finding a mate - yet she was half-way through her life and true, romantic, fairy-tale-like, all-consuming love had not happened. She had watched, how others had made fools of themselves and then have their hearts broken far too many times before, to wish losing her mind over such a fleeting emotions. "Do you wish to marry me off to someone?" she teased him light-heartedly, not wanting to analyze the subject too much.