“Let them marry. Time wouldn’t mind us borrowing just a minute.” “Time might not,” Silene said. “But right now they are just two people who love one another. In another minute it will become eternal. He won’t die as her lover. He will die as her husband. As her forever. Bound to her by human vows not even Gods will ever understand the meaning to. You could give them one more minute, but you would be taking eternity from her.”