She reached up, taking his face in her hands, looking into the amber eyes she dreamt of. "You once told me, I have to save myself. You aren't in this alone."

They had been sobering words coming from him. But, Lothoro had never sugar coated things with her. He spoke the truth and when she needed shaken, he had a way of shaking her to the core.

Never had she imagined she would be with him again in any fashion. Feeling him holding her brought tears to her eyes. For as hard and strong as she tried to be these last decades, she had felt very alone in the world. A simple thing like his arms around her reminded her of how cold she had been inside.

"I should have been there with you when it happened." Buy 'it' she meant the fight that ended both her mother and father's lives. "And you should have come to me, told me what was truly going on. You no longer have to protect me, you can let me in, let me help. You do not have to fight this fight alone."