[Kodachi's expression changed to one of sadness, and she looked away. It really was a lonely life, and she felt sorry for him. For all his crassness and everything infuriating about him, well . . . maybe he'd be different - not nicer, of course - but different if there was someone who loved him and he knew it.]
It sounds lonely, is all. It would be easier, I think, if you had someone fighting alongside you.
[She pushed a bit of cake around her plate. Hadn't it occurred to Ragna that the reason she was so enamored of marriage wasn't just the trappings and the grandiosity of it - it was the simple fact that marriage meant that someone loved you forever and would always be at your side, no matter what - and that you could do the same for them.]
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It sounds lonely, is all. It would be easier, I think, if you had someone fighting alongside you.
[She pushed a bit of cake around her plate. Hadn't it occurred to Ragna that the reason she was so enamored of marriage wasn't just the trappings and the grandiosity of it - it was the simple fact that marriage meant that someone loved you forever and would always be at your side, no matter what - and that you could do the same for them.]