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Reverie looked back to him then, really looked, and softened to see how tired and stressed he seemed. Alright, She agreed, and kissed his cheek softly. I missed you. I was worried, she almost added, but decided against it. He didn't need to know that.
I - I want you to know that I appreciate everything you do for us. For our family, She said instead. For the first time she felt strange to think of it that way; they weren't properly married, so they weren't a proper family, so — Reverie recognized the spiral and cut it short. They loved one another, and that was all that mattered, wasn't it? She didn't need to live by the rules of The Gilded Sea anymore. But neither could she shake the feeling of being... undesirable. Undesired. Why else would they still be unwed? They had spoken of it once, at the very beginning of all this. But that day by the lake had changed everything, she felt. Lestan would never marry her.