Duck Lake No one dies from love; guess I'll be the first

"you!" lestan exulted and insisted, wending her closer and closer. "i want you to come to the creek! i want to go to kvarsheim! i want —" and then a hundred words crowded his tongue and his breath juddered again —
"this. you. us. i — that's what i'm thinking. that is what i want."
but he wanted to belong to swiftcurrent and she could not leave her family, he did not want to even be a hint of the cause for it.
and so lestan only gently kissed one cheek and then the other.