Dragoncrest Cliffs weeper

What did she mean, asking if it was true? Rosalyn had meant it more as a way to potentially dismiss the unnecessary flattery, if it was only that, so she hadn't put anything deeper on it. It sounded, from the way Jorunn asked it, as if she had found something more.

As true as anything else, she replied, curious. She supposed she did mean it, however. She loved her mate more with every passing season, but their love grew in different and immeasurable ways. It wasn't the same as it had been when they began.

Everything changes. Eventually. That thought was inevitable and drew her back to the pressing nature of time, the gap between who Jorunn now was and who Rosalyn had become. She didn't want to linger there.