Gilded Bay A Maze or Labarynth

"Hmmm if that were the case I'd just have to help, I don't think I could go that long without you." HIs age had not been a barrier thus far to their relationship, and yet at the mention of it she could feel a glimmer of awareness at the edges of her thought. Life was not certain and anyone could leave (by choice or otherwise) at any time, and while she did not want to linger on the possibility that age would steal him away it was an unavoidable truth.

Her lips twitched and she offered, conspiratorial. "I asked Towhee and she said a lifetime of loyalty would be enough."