No? I didn't ask her to, but she...I thought that she, because you...but I...
[If only it were so easy to stop fretting, to stop feeling this immense sense of shame wash over her. She should've been direct, she should've done literally anything else but this, she should've realized when he didn't get her the first time he didn't get her. Foolish, foolish--]
Yes. Yes, it is. It's... [Alear's eyes close, as if bracing herself. It's mostly so she doesn't have to look Griss in the face for this.] ...Marth told Vander and I about it, when we went out to gather more rings. We came across an illusion of the Lythos Castle Gardens, and retrieved this ring from an altar. This is...
It isn't an emblem ring; it is a ring known as the Pact Ring. It's a kind of ring passed down from Divine Dragons, and it carries a great significance. It's...it's something that...
[come on, girl, you can do it!!]
It's something that...we may give, to those we consider great allies to us. Even...precious, to us, so that we may never part. It carries my Mother's power, and...
[...]
To be honest with you? I don't know what meaning my Mother derived from it. I don't know if she ever gave the ring, or a ring to someone at all. I wanted to try and find my own meaning for it, and give it to someone I consider truly dear to me. And...you're that someone, Griss. If you're amendable to it, I...would like to stay by your side.
[She absolutely understands if he can't, or won't. In a way, Alear wonders if this is too much even still; they've definitely got an understanding of one another. They've talked, and talked, and beaten each other up a bit, and talked some more, and it's been nice to not feel so lonely up at the top. Alear isn't sure if this is really love, or anything of the sort, but...
Well. She's willing to let him go, if necessary. She'd feel kind of bad taking the ring back at that point, but at least he knows now.]
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No? I didn't ask her to, but she...I thought that she, because you...but I...
[If only it were so easy to stop fretting, to stop feeling this immense sense of shame wash over her. She should've been direct, she should've done literally anything else but this, she should've realized when he didn't get her the first time he didn't get her. Foolish, foolish--]
Yes. Yes, it is. It's... [Alear's eyes close, as if bracing herself. It's mostly so she doesn't have to look Griss in the face for this.] ...Marth told Vander and I about it, when we went out to gather more rings. We came across an illusion of the Lythos Castle Gardens, and retrieved this ring from an altar. This is...
It isn't an emblem ring; it is a ring known as the Pact Ring. It's a kind of ring passed down from Divine Dragons, and it carries a great significance. It's...it's something that...
[come on, girl, you can do it!!]
It's something that...we may give, to those we consider great allies to us. Even...precious, to us, so that we may never part. It carries my Mother's power, and...
[...]
To be honest with you? I don't know what meaning my Mother derived from it. I don't know if she ever gave the ring, or a ring to someone at all. I wanted to try and find my own meaning for it, and give it to someone I consider truly dear to me. And...you're that someone, Griss. If you're amendable to it, I...would like to stay by your side.
[She absolutely understands if he can't, or won't. In a way, Alear wonders if this is too much even still; they've definitely got an understanding of one another. They've talked, and talked, and beaten each other up a bit, and talked some more, and it's been nice to not feel so lonely up at the top. Alear isn't sure if this is really love, or anything of the sort, but...
Well. She's willing to let him go, if necessary. She'd feel kind of bad taking the ring back at that point, but at least he knows now.]