Kreyu looks worried, for a moment. "I'm glad she realized. I could have LOST you." She hugs him tightly.

"It didn't even occur to me that she might have worried you were a threat. Perhaps it was the echoes between us, or, or the depths of my want."

She laughs softly. "She had me sat down in her house within an hour of my arriving in the village for the first time. She must have seen how naive I was, how the young men looked at me, felt that she had to educate me on certain matters IMMEDIATELY." She flushes in embarrassment.