"Do you…" Meira began as she built some courage. "Do you think Lord Thayne will ever… you know?" Vesperia looked at Meira for a few seconds before sighing and giving her a comforting smile. "You like him—I do believe that,” she said in a motherly tone. “Just don’t confuse gratitude and admiration with love and adoration, or the outcome will only be needless hurt. He cares for you, but you have a long way to go before your emotions are ones he can respond to in the way you hope. You want fundamentally different things as you are now, and I don’t see him changing. So if you want to pursue more
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