Jade Fern Grove mea maxima culpa

it's true. he's brought about the dissolution of her first and only family (but so had she and so had the flames) he'd brought her pain and grief (but it had been her choice to allow the man what she did in this glade) and now he brought to a head all that had happened over the last year. not just her, but Seelie, Undersea, and perhaps others beside. and yet. had he not brought her good things? he'd brought her happiness and comfort and the meaning of love. 

he is leaving and she is silent. she makes her choice not because it is the right one but because it is the only one. "mera pyaar." the word is clunky on her tongue, as if an instrument not tuned for a long while. "I will walk with you."