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She pauses. "I know what it is to suffer loss. And after, in the many empty winters following, I had little to guide my heart but my daughter, my precious Partha.  It was only when I lost her, and was then reunited with her, that I understood that neither she nor my honor were the same as the other.  I was not beholden to the laws of my heart, for that is where I failed her."

She looks back to him. "Danthe has told me of your dedication. I understand this.  But I also am here to talk of this thing.  Though we are not yet wed, I have pledged myself to him.  To his house, I have given myself, and I bow to his house, and to my co-wife.  When we are wed, and he takes me, I will be of his house.  It is then, that he shall have a new defender.  He is to be my King, and I his Queen, and my fire shall be the one to keep his hearth ablaze.  You say you are the guard dog of his children.  When they are mine, what will you yield to me?" Her eyes look to Marcus, searching for his reaction.