User blog comment:HoundTheDestroyer93/Ask Hound And Samia/@comment-28358106-20170502014500/@comment-28358106-20170504122536

She smiles sympathetically. "I know well this feeling. We have a phrase for it, though it does not translate well. It is 'itov ineh'.  In your speech, it means, 'love fire,' but those words are meaningless.  It is the feeling of a complete love, when another fills you so completely, that to think of them hurts, whether thinking of being with them, or being apart from them.  I have itov ineh for my family, as well, but most of all, for Danthe."

Marcus can see her body language shift again as she opens up, opening her wings a little, her tail uncoiling slowly. "It is a feeling that says you love them so much, you would stand on a mountain, and shout their name until you could no more. That you would fight forever.  It is a feeling that -"

In her rising emotion, her tail unfurls and pushes a small nearby table, knocking a vase to the floor. Luckily, it bounces on the rug, but the decorative flowers inside it fall out.

Tirush looks at it, wide eyed, her face turning red. "...Oh. Apologies.  Er..."