Voice thick, he asked her, “What do you hope our marriage to be?” “Little different than what we have now,” she said quietly. “Never could we be only friends, Aerax, yet the finest of friends we are still—though we would have that without marriage. There will be time spent in the bed, but we would also have that without marriage. There will be helping each other, as you helped me when all seemed so lost. But we would have that without marriage, too. And always I will love you, with or without marriage. So if there is any difference, it is only that we are no longer Aerax and Lizzan, two people
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