Dahozhoni Meadow Darling Danger

"Well, you could have lied to impress me," Dwin laughed, finding it funny that this came from her, who valued honesty above anything else. Yet she set different standards for Darkling. He was crazy. He was a bit of an alien. And you made allowances to specimens of yor research, when you did not consider the other being stemming quite from the same tree you were. Something like that. 

"So the valley will be over-run by your out-of-wedlock spawn that will never know their father?" she asked half-serious, half-teasing. It would also occur to her later that, while she had no intention of having children now, she would have objections to any would-be partner, who would claim to sleep around, forget names of mothers and never know names of his children.

"Don't you fear that one day you may dalliance with your daughter or grand-daughter and not even realize it?" a hard question really, but there was no hint of judgement in her tone. Just curiousity about a person, whose life experience and world-view was so vastly different from hers. "Come to think of it... it is kind of unfair that only the mom knows for sure that the children are hers. Fathers have to believe the story they are told," she grinned.

"Leaving - in the middle of winter - that sounds kind of suicidal, don't you think?" she asked. "Though, I have to admit, that it would make a great story, were you to survive," she mused and was so entertained by the galore of interesting subjects to think about that she forgot to answer his inquiry about herself.