“Well for what it’s worth, I hope she says yes,” he said jovially, clapping Raeleth on the back. “Even if I do think that it makes you the bravest man alive.” Raeleth smiled at that. “Well it’s either that, or be the stupidest one if I didn’t try,” he observed. “Finding her here has been like… finding a jewel in amongst the dirt. An emerald, dropped into the cup of a beggar.”
